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  • Ontario Tumour Bank samples used in Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Project

    Ontario Tumour Bank samples used in Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Project

    • August 18, 2020

    The ICGC/TCGA Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes Project (PCAWG), known as the Pan-Cancer Project, a collaboration involving more than 1,300 scie

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  • Ontario Tumour Bank collaborating to improve biobanking globally

    Ontario Tumour Bank collaborating to improve biobanking globally

    • September 22, 2017

    Biorepositories (or biobanks) play an important role in many types of research.

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  • OTB Oncology Future Needs Survey - Your Input Requested

    OTB Oncology Future Needs Survey - Your Input Requested

    • October 25, 2016

    Ontario Tumour Bank is conducting a survey to better understand future biospecimen and data needs of oncology researchers.

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  • Ontario Tumour Bank virtual lab tour: watch the video here

    Ontario Tumour Bank virtual lab tour: watch the video here

    • November 10, 2015

    Have you ever wondered what it takes to become a gold-standard biobank?

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  • Coming Soon! Have you heard about cell-free plasma?

    Coming Soon! Have you heard about cell-free plasma?

    • October 20, 2015

    A NEW tool for early detection, diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring of human tumours.

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  • Breakthrough ovarian cancer biomarker research supported by Ontario Tumour Bank

    Breakthrough ovarian cancer biomarker research supported by Ontario Tumour Bank

    • April 10, 2015

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  • Ontario Tumour Bank, supporting research for 10 years!  Read the press release here.

    Ontario Tumour Bank, supporting research for 10 years! Read the press release here.

    • October 3, 2014

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  • Bob Phillips, Sugy Kodeeswaran, and others congratulate OTB on 10 years of biobanking: watch the video here.

    Bob Phillips, Sugy Kodeeswaran, and others congratulate OTB on 10 years of biobanking: watch the video here.

    • October 3, 2014

    Congratulations to Ontario Tumour Bank on a successful first 10 years.

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  • Effective September 4, 2014, to support local research even more, OTB cut its access fees to Ontario academic researchers even further by 50 per cent off previous rates.

    Effective September 4, 2014, to support local research even more, OTB cut its access fees to Ontario academic researchers even further by 50 per cent off previous rates.

    • September 4, 2014

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  • OTB is authored in Nature: Comprehensive molecular profiling of lung adenocarcinoma.

    OTB is authored in Nature: Comprehensive molecular profiling of lung adenocarcinoma.

    • July 31, 2014

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  • OTB is authored in Nature: Comprehensive molecular characterization of gastric adenocarcinoma.

    OTB is authored in Nature: Comprehensive molecular characterization of gastric adenocarcinoma.

    • July 23, 2014

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  • OTB presents at ISBER on the financial sustainability of biobanks

    OTB presents at ISBER on the financial sustainability of biobanks

    • May 24, 2014

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  • OTB is an author in: Generating a Comprehensive Set of Standard Operating Procedures for a Biorepository Network—The CTRNet Experience

    OTB is an author in: Generating a Comprehensive Set of Standard Operating Procedures for a Biorepository Network—The CTRNet Experience

    • December 16, 2013

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  • Ontario Tumour Bank to supply samples to COEUR, a pan-Canadian ovarian cancer research project

    Ontario Tumour Bank to supply samples to COEUR, a pan-Canadian ovarian cancer research project

    • November 1, 2013

    The Ontario Tumour Bank (OTB) will supply ovarian tumour samples to the Canadian Ovarian Cancer Experimental Unified Resource (COEUR) in an effort to further enhance ovarian cancer research in Canada, announced Dr. John Bartlett, Provincial Principal Investigator, OTB and Director of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research’s (OICR) Transformative Pathology Program.

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  • OTB is authored in Nature: Integrated genomic characterization of endometrial carcinoma

    OTB is authored in Nature: Integrated genomic characterization of endometrial carcinoma

    • May 2, 2013

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  • OTB is authored in Nature Genetics: Exome and whole-genome sequencing of esophageal adenocarcinoma identifies recurrent driver events and mutational complexity.

    OTB is authored in Nature Genetics: Exome and whole-genome sequencing of esophageal adenocarcinoma identifies recurrent driver events and mutational complexity.

    • May 1, 2013

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  • Becoming One Bank: A Multicenter Tumour Bank Servicing Ontario Province (Canada)

    Becoming One Bank: A Multicenter Tumour Bank Servicing Ontario Province (Canada)

    • April 1, 2013

    Ontario Tumour Bank (OTB) is a program of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) in Ontario, Canada. We are a provincial biorepository funded by the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation. Our program encompasses four large teaching hospitals across the province: The London Health Sciences Centre, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, The Ottawa Hospital, and Kingston General Hospital. We focus on the collection of tumour and blood samples and related clinical data from over 30 types of cancers, and distributes these materials to qualified academic and industry researchers (www.ontariotumourbank.ca).

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  • OTB is authored in Nature: Comprehensive genomic characterization of squamous cell lung cancers

    OTB is authored in Nature: Comprehensive genomic characterization of squamous cell lung cancers

    • September 27, 2012

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  • LHSC tumour bank providing support to cancer researchers around the world

    LHSC tumour bank providing support to cancer researchers around the world

    • July 12, 2012

    For researchers across Canada, and around the world, obtaining high quality tumour samples for cancer research can be a challenge - particularly for rare cancer types. London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) has been helping to address that challenge since 2004, collecting over one third of the tumour samples available to researchers through Ontario Tumour Bank (OTB), a provincial biobank owned and managed by the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, a not-for-profit organization. LHSC is one of four collection centres making up OTB, which in May passed the 10,000 donor milestone.

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  • Celebrating KGH's Tumour Bank

    Celebrating KGH's Tumour Bank

    • June 11, 2012

    Ontario Tumour Bank (OTB) is celebrating a milestone. It's now banked samples from more than 10,000 donors and Kingston General Hospital is a big part of that success.
    Since the program began at our hospital in 2005, over 1,700 donors from Kingston and across the region have provided over 2,000 samples to it.

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  • Over 10,000 donors have now provided samples to Ontario Tumour Bank

    Over 10,000 donors have now provided samples to Ontario Tumour Bank

    • May 31, 2012

    Dr. Tom Hudson, President and Scientific Director of Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), today announced that Ontario Tumour Bank (OTB) has now banked samples from more than 10,000 donors. This is an important milestone for OTB, a province-wide biorepository and data bank led by OICR that is focused on the collection of tumour-related blood and tissue samples for cancer research.

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  • OTB is authored in Nature: Driver mutations in histone H3.3 and chromatin remodelling genes in paediatric glioblastoma

    OTB is authored in Nature: Driver mutations in histone H3.3 and chromatin remodelling genes in paediatric glioblastoma

    • January 29, 2012

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