At each OTB site, dedicated staff members collect samples and clinical data from consenting donors while following a strict set of procedures and guidelines. Both cancerous and adjacent-normal tissue is collected, in addition to matched blood samples, offering researchers everything they need to analyze a patients’ tumour. Researchers are able to...

About CSTAR, a 22,500 square foot facility located in the Legacy Research Pavilion of LHSC, integrates research, development, preclinical and clinical testing, validation, commercialization and clinical implementation of Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) technologies and robotics. CSTAR provides an environment that enables meaningful collaboration...

About Lawson Health Research Institute’s (Lawson) Nordal Cyclotron & PET Radiochemistry facility produces short-lived PERs for the St. Joseph’s Health Care London PET scanners, and will eventually be the centre of a regional distribution network for PERs. In combination with PET/CT, PET/MRI and preclinical PET imaging scanners, the facility...

Sample types currently include: Breast disease site - blood and breast tumour tissue obtained at the time of biopsy; and Prostate disease site - blood, prostate tissue and urine obtained at the time of biopsy, and serial blood and urine samples on a subset of prostate cancer patients. Data currently collected includes: Baseline data (patient...

Whole Body PET/MRI at Lawson Our group is comprised of scientists, radiologists, technologists, and support staff. Our many collaborators include physicists, kinesiologists, cardiologists, rheumatologists, oncologists, orthopedic surgeons, geriatricians, and psychiatrists, with whom we perform ethics-approved clinical and preclinical imaging...