The establishment of the Australian Marrow Failure Biobank, led by Maddie Riewoldt’s Vision, is a collaboration between Maddie’s Vision, Monash University Transfusion Research Unit and Biobanking Victoria. A biobank is a collection of stored patient samples which is utilised for further research. Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes are rare diseases for which available patient samples are also rare. The Australian Marrow Failure Bank will provide a central national repository for the collection of samples from patients with Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes. Access to these tissue samples will vastly speed up the work of researchers Australia-wide, providing the necessary and vital tools for scientists to ask and answer the most complex of research questions, including how to best diagnose and treat Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes.
2020-2023 (Grant): Evaluating Multidisciplinary Bone Marrow Failure Syndrome Care – a prospective observational clinical trial offering comprehensive diagnostic genomic evaluation, multidisciplinary case review and multidisciplinary clinical ...
Read more2020-2024 (Grant): Rescuing bone marrow function in relapsed acquired Aplastic Anaemia and /or poor graft function post allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, Professor David Ritchie, Melbourne Health. Clinical trials are important for the ...
Read more2018-2020 (Grant-in-Aid): Predicting malignant transformation of Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes using longitudinal targeted sequencing of peripheral blood and cell-free DNA (cfDNA). Associate Professor Piers Blombery, Peter MacCallum Cancer ...
Read more2018-2021 (Doctoral Degree Fellowship): Clinical, genomic and molecular determinants of outcome in patients with Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes, Dr Lucy Fox, The University of Melbourne. This project is the first scholarship in Australia to ...
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