What We Do
Wales Cancer Biobank offers a range of services to support involvement, participation and engagement in cancer research. Watch this short video to find out more:
Who We Are
Professor Richard Clarkson
Scientific Director and PI
Professor Richard Adams
Clinical Director
Dr Lisa Spary
Operations Manager
Abby MacArthur
Senior Bioresourcing Team Lead
The Wales Cancer Biobank staff are based in Cardiff, Swansea and Newport and cover a range of biobanking activities from consenting patients and data extraction, processing sample, curating samples from clinical trials, IT and database development, coordinating projects, managing applications and administrative process.
The Wales Cancer Biobank is licensed by the Human Tissue Authority under the UK Human Tissue Act (2004) to store human tissue for research (research licence 12107).
WCB is approved as a Research Tissue Bank by Wales Research Ethics Committee (REC) 3 and is working to ISO20387:2018 Biotechnology-Biobanking-General Requirements for Biobanking.