Tissue Banking in the NHS
"The advantages for Pathology Departments"
Wednesday 6 January 2010
Lecture Theatre 2, Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College Rd, London SW7 2AZ
| 09.00 - 10.30 Session I | What can tissue banking do for me? | |
| 09.00 - 09.20 | The Executive’s perspective | Malcolm Mason, WCB |
| 09.20 - 09.40 | The BMS perspective | Christine Davies, ABM Trust |
| 09.40 - 10.00 | The Pathologist’s perspective | Wynne Williams, ABM Trust |
| 11.00 - 12.30 Session II | Practical Tissue Banking | |
| 11.00 - 11.20 | Getting started | Malcolm Mason, WCB |
| 11.20 - 11.40 | Talking to patients | Suzanne Williams, WCB |
| 11.40 - 12.00 | Management and Governance | Alison Parry-Jones, WCB |
| 13.30- 15.00 Session III | What do researchers want? | |
| 13.30 - 14.00 | What to collect and is it fit for purpose? | Gerry Thomas, Imperial College |
| 14.00 - 14.30 | What do biotech companies want? | Nessa Carey, CellCentric |
| 14.30 - 15.00 | What does Big Pharma want? | Chris Womack, AstraZeneca |
| 15.30 - 17.00 Session IV | Using tissue banks for research | |
| 15.30 - 15.50 | Research Tissue Banks and Access policies | Louise Jones, CRUK |
| 15.50 - 16.20 | Research Tissue Banks and Systems Biology in Cancer Research | Kristian Unger, Imperial College |