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:
Cliciwch yma i wylio’r fideo yn y GymraegWho 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 intersection of healthcare and science is creating a revolution, and for me the most exciting frontier is pairing human samples like blood, DNA or tissues with big data from the information revolution to study patterns across whole populations and enable large-scale research. Wales was a leader in the UK to coordinate what had been a fragmented approach and has established itself as complementing bigger and disease-specific population-wide projects such as UK Biobank and Our Future Health, all of which contribute to expanding global gold mines of data to help find the causes of diseases and invent novel treatments. But with the ever-quickening pace of change we need to find time to horizon-scan, to think outside the box, to make sure we are investing wisely and creating the biggest breakthroughs.”
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.
