Blanaid Mee spent much of 2010 designing, carrying out and analysing a Quality Control study of breast cancer and normal tissue samples, processed in a number of different formats. This was facilitated by the employment at SJH of temporary biobank scientists Margaret Lawson and Kevin O’Flynn. The work shows that samples in the biobank are of high quality, which is a tribute to those in the “intrahospital network”. A paper is in review by Biobanking and Biopreservation. The QC project continues with the examination of colon cancer samples by Lauren Brady, a student from DCU.
Presentations
Blanaid Mee and Eoin Gaffney made several presentations at Irish and European meetings during 2010: IACR, IPPOSI, Biomedica, Marble Arch International Group, Tiss.Eu Bioethics Workshop, ISSP, HRG, Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland.
Biobank Ireland Publications
Gaffney EF, Mee B, O’Grady A, Kay EW: An Irish biobank network for patient-focused research. Irish Medical J 2011; 104:125.
Meier K, Gaffney EF, Ravid R, et al. The human face of biobank networks for translational research. Biopreserv Biobanking (in press, 2011).
Gaffney EF, Madden D, Thomas GA. The Human Side of Cancer Biobanking. In: Individualised Molecular Medicine (Eds L Liotta, V Espina). Methods in Molecular Biology series, Humana Press Inc., Totowa, NJ, USA (in press, 2011).
Mee BC, Carroll P, Donatello S et al. Maintaining breast cancer specimen integrity and individual or simultaneous extraction of quality DNA, RNA and proteins from AllProtect-stabilized and non-stabilized tissue samples. Biopreserv Biobanking (in review, June 2011)