| First | Last | Are you interested in collaborative research? | Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research? | If yes, please provide more details or describe the biobanks available: | Equipment | Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research? | If yes, please provide more details or describe the equipment and resources available: | Please check all research categories that apply to your interests | Cancer Research and Oncology (Please check all research categories that apply to your interests) | Computational Biology and Bioinformaticshoice (Please check all research categories that apply to your interests) | Infectious Diseases and Immunology (Please check all research categories that apply to your interests) | Neuroscience and Neurodegenerative Diseases (Please check all research categories that apply to your interests) | Cardiopulmonary and Vascular Medicine (Please check all research categories that apply to your interests) | Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery (Please check all research categories that apply to your interests) | Molecular Genetics and Precision Medicine (Please check all research categories that apply to your interests) | Aging, Chronic Diseases, and Women’s Health (Please check all research categories that apply to your interests) | Post your research keywords | ||||
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| Yasir | Mohamud | Yes | No | No |
| cardiovascular disease, innate immunity, myocarditis, RNA viruses, viral pathogenesis | |||||||||||||||
| Katey | Enfield | Yes | No | No |
| B cells, bioinformatics, cancer genomics, cancer immunology, data integration, lung cancer, spatial profiling techniques, tumour microenvironment | |||||||||||||||
| Stephen | Yip | Yes | Yes | Yes Snap frozen Brain tumour tissue/blood samples collected in 2000-2008. No longer actively banking. | No |
| brain cancer, cancer, epigenomics, Genomics, neuro-oncology, neuropathology, oncology, pathology | ||||||||||||||
| Joanne | Wright | No | No | No |
| chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), interstitial lung disease; cryobiopsy | |||||||||||||||
| Andrew | Weng | Yes | Yes | No |
| acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) pathogenesis, clinical flow cytometry and lymphoma tumor repository, high-throughput sequencing and gene editing technologies, NOTCH1 and oncogene research in T-ALL, tumor heterogeneity in B-cell lymphoma | |||||||||||||||
| Cheryl | Wellington | Yes | Yes | COVID-19 biobank consisting of acute blood (serum and plasma) specimens from COVID-19 patients hospitalized the ICU during the first waves of the pandemic, as well as chronic specimens collected from patients who recovered from COVID-19 infections up to ~2 years post-infection. Some ICU samples have limited PBMCs. | Yes | The Wellington lab has a major interest in fluid biomarkers, and has the following resources available now on a collaborative basis: Quanterix HD-X (2 units), SP-X (1 unit) and Alamar NULISA Argo (1 unit). |
| biomarkers, dementia, lipids, neurology, neurotrauma | |||||||||||||
| Peter | Watson | Yes | Yes | I direct the BC Cancer Tumor tissue repository (biobank) and the BC Cancer Biobanking and Biospecimen services (biobank services). Details of these and several subcollections that are all open access and CTRNet registered and certified can be found on the Canadian Tissue Repository Network (CTRNet) national biobank locator https://biobanking.org/locator | No |
| biobanking, biomarkers, breast cancer, Molecular pathology | ||||||||||||||
| Ying | Wang | Yes | Yes | Bruce McManus Cardiovascular Biobank that has the largest collection of freshly collected failed hearts and valves in Canada: https://www.hli.ubc.ca/our-services/cardiovascular-tissue-registry/ PhenoCycler multiplex imaging platform: can image 3-50+ protein markers on one tissue section | No |
| cardiovascular disease, drug repurposing, human tissue and blood biobank, in situ multiplex imaging, inflammation, transcriptomics | ||||||||||||||
| Leandro | Venturutti | Yes | No | No |
| autoimmune disorders and adaptive immune responses, B cells, blood cancer, clonal precursor populations, disease dissemination, immune biology, lymphoma, preclinical models, tumor immunology, functional genetics | |||||||||||||||
| Fumio | Takei | No | No | No |
| allergic lung inflammation, cytokines, hepatitis. fibrosis, innate immunity, lymphocytes | |||||||||||||||
| Christian | Steidl | Yes | Yes | No |
| biomarker, cancer, cancer genomics, immunology, lymphoma, molecular genetics, outcome prediction, targeted therapy, tumor microenvironment | |||||||||||||||
| Poul | Sorensen | Maybe | No | No |
| and immunotherapy, biochemistry and proteomics, cell stress pathways, childhood cancers, childhood CNS tumors, childhood sarcomas, pediatric oncology, the tumor microenvironment | |||||||||||||||
| Thomas | Sierocinski | No | No | No |
| Analytical validation Process, automation, Biomarker development and deployment, Data mining, Genomics, High throughput biological data management and analysis, Molecular pathology, optimization and reproducibility, Quality Control | |||||||||||||||
| Chun | Seow | Yes | Yes | We have frozen human lung tissue and inflated whole lungs from asthmatic, COPD, and healthy donners. | Yes | Myographs for in vitro smooth muscle experiments, measuring muscle force, shortening, power, and stiffness. Plethysmograph for whole lung experiments, measuring lung elastance and resistance. The plethysmograph can be placed in a CT scanner to measure structural changes in the lungs while monitoring the changes in lung mechanics. |
| airway smooth muscle, and mechanopharmacology, asthma, lung mechanics, muscle mechanics, smooth muscle biochemistry | |||||||||||||
| David | Schaeffer | Yes | Yes | No |
| colorectal cancer, GI Pathology, Next-Generation Sequencing, pancreatic cancer | |||||||||||||||
| Marianne | Sadar | Maybe | No | No |
| translational research and basic research/cancer biology | |||||||||||||||
| Andrew | Roth | Yes | No | No |
| bioinformatics, cancer, computational statistics, Genomics, machine learning, single cell omics | |||||||||||||||
| Jacqueline | Quandt | Yes | No | Yes | What I do have/utilize are several conventional and novel/risk variant models of inflammatory and chemical demyelinating/neurodegenerative MS preclinical models which includes tissues and samples which we use for biomarker evaluation compared to human tissues and samples which we obtain from collaborators/have ongoing collaborations for national studies (and a small set of our own, which we cannot make available at this time). |
| foundational or basic research, immunology, inflammation, multiple sclerosis, neurodegeneration, neuroimmunology, neuroinflammation, preclinical models of disease | ||||||||||||||
| Lucy | Perrone | Yes | No | Yes | Fully functional microbiology BSL-2 laboratory capable of culturing microorganisms |
| laboratory education, microbiology, professional development, proficiency testing, quality, quality education, quality management, quality standards | ||||||||||||||
| Yongjin | Park | Yes | Yes | Our lab focuses on designing a new computational method tailored to large-scale data analysis. We collaborate with the labs at BC Cancer to make single-cell data analysis accessible and robust. | Yes | GPU workstation and HPC clusters |
| cancer genomics, causal inference, computational biology, high-dimensional data analysis, single-cell genomics | |||||||||||||
| Torsten | Nielsen | depends. My duties as MD/PhD program director force me onto a large number of committees, more than my bandwidth really allows. I can only sit on Pathology student committees if they are also in the MD/PhD program, as a few are. | Yes | I help manage the Bone & Soft Tissue biobank, as well as MAPcore which can provide access to tissue microarrays of most tissues and tumor types | Yes | equipment including immunohistochemistry autostainers, microscope slide scanners, nanoString prep station / digital analyzer / GeoMX digital spatial profiler, and a Zeiss axioscan https://mapcore.med.ubc.ca/equipment/ |
| breast cancer, histopathology, molecular diagnostics, sarcoma | |||||||||||||
| Andrew | Minchinton | Yes | No | No |
| 3D tissue models, DNA repair mechanism, drug discovery, electron transport chain, extravascular drug distribution, FLASH radiotherapy, MRI applications in oncology, tumor microenvironment | |||||||||||||||
| Ian | MacKenzie | Yes | Yes | No |
| dementia, frontotemporal dementia, molecular genetics, neurodegenerative disease, proteinopathy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | |||||||||||||||
| Honglin | Luo | Yes | Yes | No |
| lung and breast cancer, myocarditis, oncolytic virus, protein/organelle quality control, RNA viruses, viral pathogenesis, virotherapy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | |||||||||||||||
| Will | Lockwood | Yes | No | No |
| drug discovery, drug resistance, early detection, Genomics, lung cancer, mouse models, signaling, therapeutics | |||||||||||||||
| First | Last | Are you interested in collaborative research? | Do you have any biobanks available for collaborative research? | If yes, please provide more details or describe the biobanks available: | Equipment | Do you have any other equipment or resources available for collaborative research? | If yes, please provide more details or describe the equipment and resources available: | Please check all research categories that apply to your interests | Cancer Research and Oncology (Please check all research categories that apply to your interests) | Computational Biology and Bioinformaticshoice (Please check all research categories that apply to your interests) | Infectious Diseases and Immunology (Please check all research categories that apply to your interests) | Neuroscience and Neurodegenerative Diseases (Please check all research categories that apply to your interests) | Cardiopulmonary and Vascular Medicine (Please check all research categories that apply to your interests) | Translational Medicine and Drug Discovery (Please check all research categories that apply to your interests) | Molecular Genetics and Precision Medicine (Please check all research categories that apply to your interests) | Aging, Chronic Diseases, and Women’s Health (Please check all research categories that apply to your interests) | Post your research keywords |