Agenda - Day 2

09:20 - 09:30 Welcome and outline of the day

09:30 - 10:40 Tissue Collection - Formalin and beyond.

Chair: Malcolm Mason

Wales Cancer Bank
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09:30 - 09:55

The Alternatives: The Evidence Base

Jane Hair

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Biobank Services
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09:55 - 10:20

Galvanizing fixation

Gordon Stamp

Imperial College London and Cancer Research UK London Research Institute
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10:20 - 10:40

Discussion

10:40 - 11:00 Break

11:00 - 12:20 Quality Assurance in Pathology - What should we record?

Chair: Malcolm Mason

Wales Cancer Bank

11:00 - 11:25

Maintaining consistency of immunochemistry: the effect of speed of tissue preservation

Chris Womack

AstraZeneca
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11:25 - 11:50

Quality metrics of tissue beyond histology

Stephen Hewitt

National Cancer Institute, USA
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11:50 - 12:20

Discussion

12:20 - 13:20 Lunch

13:20 - 14:55 RNA and DNA quality

Chair: David Levison

Tayside Tissue Bank

13:20 - 13:45

DNA QA prior to use in array based technologies

Kristian Unger

Imperial College London
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13:45 - 14:10

RNA QA - how low can you go?

Gerry Thomas

Wales Cancer Bank and Imperial College London
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14:10 - 14:35

Issues with tissues in proteomic studies

Roz Banks

Cancer Research UK Clinical Centre, Leeds
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14:35 - 14:55

Discussion

14:55 - 15:25 Round-up

Chair: Jane Cope

National Cancer Research Institute

15:25 Close

16:00 - 17:30 CCB Business meeting (Closed Meeting)