Improving skin cancer research capacity by establishing a skin cancer biobank at Townsville University Hospital
Role
Collaborator
Description
Australia has the highest incidence of skin cancer worldwide and of all states and territories, Queensland has the highest rate in Australia. The skin cancer biobank will provide a prospectively collected pre-treatment and post-treatment tissue and serum cohort to allow us to study the biomarkers of tumour and its immune microenvironment with next generation tools (e.g. spatial analysis of proteomic and genomic, single cell sequencing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc). We aim to use these biomarkers along with our prospective registry of patients with high-risk skin cancer to further characterise the cancer and immune biology of high-risk skin cancer, response to treatment, and develop new treatment targets in the future.
Date
01 Aug 2024 - 30 Jul 2026
Project Type
GRANT
Keywords
Cancer;diagnostics;proteomics
Funding Body
Townsville Hospital and Health Service
Amount
138553
Project Team
Ulf Schmitz