The Alfred-Monash Brain Tumour Bio-databank

See the Alfred-Monash Brain Tumour biobank video

The Alfred-Monash Brain Tumour Bio-databank was featured on The Project, 18 November. The clips helps people to understand the experiences of patients faced with a devastating diagnosis who are assisting with our research. See links below.

If you would like to work with the Alfred Brain Tumour Bio-databank on a research project or use samples for your research, then please contact Loretta Piccenna (loretta.piccenna@monash.edu) and ABTB Clinical Coordinator, Emily Galea (E.Galea@alfred.org,au).

Cracking the COVID-19 immunity code

Dr James McMahon, COVID-19 biobank

development lead

Monash University’s Dr James McMahon, an infectious disease expert and hospital clinician at The Alfred and Monash Health, is leading the development of a biobank aimed at cracking the immunity code of COVID-19.

The biobank enables the collection of clinical information along with blood and respiratory swabs from COVID-19 patients in Melbourne to be thoroughly tested to establish how the virus behaves in different people.