Biobank and translational research

Phil Cheng
May 15 2018

Translational research

Things needed for good translational research

  • Clinical data

    • Response to treatment
    • Survival

  • Biobank data

    • Cell lines
    • Blood or serum

  • Genomics data

    • DNAseq: Mutations, copy number variations
    • RNAseq: Gene expression

Melanoma Patients

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Clinical data from the USZ Cancer Center

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Treatment landscape has changed dramatically

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Real life survival data

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Real life treatment data

Biobank

  • Over 1400 cell lines from >500 patients >20 years

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Translational research

Genomics

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