Tissue and data banking— potential benefits for the DSM and Southern DHB?

Over the past decade or so the use of human tissues in research has greatly increased worldwide. Perhaps even more so, patient data and patient tissue-derived data, has dramatically increased over the same timeframe. Professor Eccles believes a Human Disability and Ethics Committee (HDEC)-registered tissue bank with an associated data bank in the DSM and SDHB would be helpful to manage patient tissue and data for unspecified future research. Pertinent to this idea is the anticipation that tissue- and data-led translational research will soon be able to directly inform clinical decision-making. Professor Eccles is involved in two national research programmes, the Maurice Wilkins Centre, and National Science Challenge - Healthier Lives, in which cancer tissue and data processing is centrally involved and evolving towards tissue- and data-led translational research. In the USA and Australia, for example, tissue and data banking are an important part of the infrastructure of many leading hospital/ medical school environments. In this presentation, Professor Mike Eccles will discuss these ideas while relating them to the research programmes he's involved with, and discuss new technologies on the horizon for cancer patient management. https://www.otago.ac.nz/dsm-pathology/people/profile/index.html?id=728