VIVO Biobank Manager

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The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to be involved in the development and running of VIVO biobank (https://vivobiobank.org/).This is a national Children's and Young People's Cancer biobank formed from the merger of the Children's Cancer & Leukaemia Group (CCLG) Tissue Bank and the Blood Cancer UK leukaemia CellBank in 2022.

Key roles are responsibility for the HRA approved protocol for the Bank and any amendments, oversight of sample registrations for solid tumours and follow-up data collection, authorisation of tissue banking payments to centres, publicity and promotion of the Bank, ensuring MTAs are issued for approved studies and liaising with the Newcastle Biobank for release of solid tumour samples.

Working alongside another biobank manager based at the University of York, you will be responsible for liaising with clinical staff in centres about consenting patients and supporting new centres including TYA centres in setting up Tissue Banking processes. You will arrange all relevant paperwork, undertake periodic governance audits in collection centres and generally help to ensure good working relationships with the paediatric oncology and haematology community as well as publicising and promoting VIVO Biobank to researchers worldwide.

This post forms one of two Biobank managers within VIVO biobank. The other biobank manager based at the University of York is mainly responsible for liquid tumour banking but some cross cover will be provided.

VIVO biobank is a national Children and Young People's (CYP) Biobank funded by Cancer Research UK/Blood Cancer UK formed from the merger of two previous biobanks the Cancer Research UK (CR UK) Children's Cancer & Leukaemia Group (CCLG tissue bank) and the Blood Cancer UK Childhood Leukaemia CellBank in 2022. The Biobank has staff based at Newcastle University, the University of York and UK Biocentre (Milton Keynes).

This is a full-time, fixed-term post until 30.06.2027 (subject to annual review).

Further information can be obtained by contacting Prof Deborah Tweddle (via deborah.tweddle@newcastle.ac.uk) or Mrs Anne Thomson (via anne.thomson@york.ac.uk or anne.thomson@newcastle.ac.uk).

Find out more about the Faculty of Medical Sciences here: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/medical-sciences/.

Find out more about our Research Institutes here: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/medical-sciences/research/institutes/.

Please note that, if you are successful to this role, you will require medical clearance before you can commence in the role.

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