BCCH BioBank

01/18/2024

Our own Ashton Ellis will be presenting at the North American Placenta Lab Meeting on Tuesday at 8:30am PST! Looking forward to it 👩🏼‍💻

03/09/2023

We had a great time spending International Women’s Day at the 8th annual Women’s Health Research Symposium today! Our staff Ashton and Qudrat also presented their poster about a recent survey where we asked pregnant women+ and new moms about research, biobanking, and the consent process!

03/07/2023

Join us at BC Women’s Research Rounds next Friday, March 17th as we discuss “Biobanking in the prenatal and neonatal period” and dive into our patient survey results about when and how pregnant patients want to be approached for research.

01/25/2023

Our Winter 2023 Newsletter is now live! Read about our osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma projects, as well as other updates at the BioBank!

11/28/2022

Over the last few years, we have created an electronic consent platform with the help of focus groups, surveys, and a multi-disciplinary team. This e-consent platform went live in November of 2020. Check out Iryna Kayda's poster presentation at BCCHR/WHRI's Digital Health Week 2022 to see how it's going!

11/10/2022

We are hiring! Do you have experience with in a lab or consenting patients? Apply now for our BioBank Research Assistant/Technician position. https://ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcstaffjobs/job/UBC-Off-Campus-Hospital-Sites/Research-Assistant-Tech-1---Vercauteren_JR10362

07/28/2022

Congratulations to our summer student, Jasleen Grewal, for a great job on her poster presentation today! Her project, 'Immunohistochemical Assessment of Methylation Status in Ewing Sarcoma,' was supervised by Dr. Jon Bush

03/11/2022

Great news - our 'Superhero Video' now has subtitles available in both Chinese and Punjabi for use in supporting informed consent for Mandarin, Cantonese, & Punjabi speaking participants.

BC Children's Hospital BioBank (BCCHB)Advances in medical research have drastically improved quality of life for millions of people and lead to effective tre...

05/18/2021

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Jon Bush as the new Co-Director of the BCCH BioBank. We are excited to have him join Dr. Suzanne Vercauteren!

12/03/2019

Pregnant and delivering at BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre? The BioBank is helping out with the P2RISM Project that is aiming to improve care for moms and babies in BC by collecting blood samples after delivery! Fill out this survey if you’re interested: http://bit.ly/314fCGB

11/18/2019

Please 'like' our video below on YouTube to help us win CIHR's competition!

Suzanne Vercauteren, BC Children's Hospital

11/06/2019

Help the BioBank at BC Children’s improve their processes for new research participants.

We're looking for parents, teens, + children to help us develop an electronic consent platform at a focus group on Monday, December 2nd! Email us if you're interested!

11/06/2019

09/06/2016

02/15/2016

Exciting news from research that utilized samples processed through the BioBank!

Child and Family Research Institute (CFRI) research news and updates.

02/02/2016

Thank you for your support in sharing our video and spreading the word about the BCCH BioBank!

BC Children's Hospital BioBank (BCCHB) Advances in medical research have drastically improved quality of life for millions of people and lead to effective tr...

01/06/2016

Check out our Winter 2015 Newsletter!
http://www.cfri.ca/docs/default-source/Groups-BioBank/bcchb-winter-newsletter-2015.pdf?sfvrsn=0