Translational medical research has been given a major boost with the introduction of a new biobanking resource at Griffith University’s Gold Coast campus.
The Gold Coast Biobank is a purpose-designed biostorage facility bridging the gap in translational clinical research. A first for the Southern Hemisphere, GCBiobank recently installed an automated biostorage, the Arktic, capable of catering for a library of up to 100,000 specimens in a compact package, along with OpenSpecimen, a biostorage management system.
“With this new state-of-the-art technology, we now have the resources to improve the management of our existing samples and the capacity to take on new projects,” says Professor Nigel McMillan from Griffith’s Menzies Health Institute Queensland (MHIQ) and who will speak at the Gold Coast Health Research Week Conference (28-30 November).
“MHIQ is committed to translating innovative health research into better outcomes and so now we are able to offer research collaboration for academics and clinicians whose work