Collaborations

The Laboratory collaborates with the following institutes by providing them with cell lines established from patients at PMH.

This is done by growing the patient’s cancer cells in test tubes:

Europe

  • The Sanger Centre, Hinxton, England
  • Medical Research Council, Cambridge, England.
  • Institute of Cancer Research, Sutton, England.
  • Leukaemia Research Fund Centre, Royal Cancer Hospital, London
  • University of Cambridge, England
  • University of Surrey, England
  • University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
  • The Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands
  • Institute of Genetics & Molecular Biology, Strasbourg, France
  • University La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
  • Harvard Medical School, MA USA
  • Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, PA USA
  • Ohio State University, Columbus, OH USA
  • National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD USA

 

USA

  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY USA
  • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
  • University of Southern California, USA
  • DNAX Research Institute, Palo Alto, USA
  • University of California, Los Angeles, USA
  • University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
  • The Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC USA
  • National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD USA

 

New Zealand

  • Canterbury Health Labs, Christchurch, New Zealand

 

 Japan

  • Kobe University, Japan

 

 Australia

  • Victorian Cancer Cytogenetic Service, St. Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
  • Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide
  • Peter MacCallum Institute, Melbourne
  • Sydney Children’s Hospital, Sydney
  • Westmead Hospital, Sydney
  • Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane
  • Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane
  • Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide
  • Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Perth
  • WA Centre for Pathology and Medical Research, Perth
  • Royal Perth Hospital, Perth
  • QEII Medical Centre, Perth
  • King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth
  • Dept. Biochemistry, University of WA, Perth

 

Collaboration on genetic markers (error in genetic materials in cancer cells only) and treatment of leukaemia:

  • Children’s Oncology Group, Los Angeles, USA