General Biobank

General Biobank Applications

  • Dr. Evelyn Stewart; Salivary Biomarkers in Childhood-Onset Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Study (OCD Mental Health)
  • Dr. Jon Bush; Comparing Serum Immunoglobulin G4 to Esophageal Biopsy Samples in a Prospective Cohort of Pediatric Eosinophilic Esophagitis Patients
  • Dr. Denise Daley; Methylation Sequencing of EoE Children (EOE)
  • Dr. Fabio Rossi; CODEX deep imaging training, validation, and optimization
  • Dr. Michael Kobor; Assessing early-life exposures by analyzing compounds in baby teeth
  • Dr. Peter van den Elzen; Pilot Study: Exploring whether natural killer T cells regulate the expansion of tonsillar B cells following EBV infection and if this virus preferentially infects specific B cells
  • Dr. Crystal Karakochuk; Folate status in children with sickle cell disease
  • Dr. David Cabral; Chronic Childhood Vasculitis: Characterizing the Individual Rare Diseases to Improve Patient Outcomes
  • Dr. Marina Ulanova; Studies in support of a new vaccine to prevent invasive Haemophilus influenzae type a (Hia) disease in Canadian Indigenous communities
  • Dr. Philipp Lange; Proteins and their modification in childhood cancer
  • Drs. Gregor Reid, Chris Maxwell, James Lim, Kirk Schultz, and Phillip Lange; BrAVE
  • Dr. Michelle Demos and Dr. Mary McConnelly; Collection of specimens and clinical data from Pediatric Neurology Patients for biobanking
  • Dr. Kirk Schultz; Over-expression of Y-Box-Binding Protein (YB-1) in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
  • Dr James Lim; Cell adhesion mediated chemo resistance in pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
  • Dr. Jacob Rozmus; Surface expression of B cell activating factor (BAFF) and BAFF-receptor on precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells
  • Dr Gregor Reid; Prospective generation of pediatric leukemia relapse by xenotransplantation
  • Dr Gregor Reid; Post-chemo CpG responses
  • Dr. Jacob Rozmus; Comparing NANS deficiency bone marrow B cell immunophenotyping with normal pediatric bone marrow B cell profiles
  • Dr. Kirk Schultz and Dr. Kelly McNagny; Development of Podocalyxin targeted therapeutics for the treatment of hematological cancers
  • Dr. Carl Hansen; High-throughput technology for human antibody discovery
  • Dr. Connie Eaves; Origin and significance of altered DNA replication timing in pediatric leukemia
  • Dr. Tom Blydt-Hansen; Enhanced immune monitoring in pediatric kidney transplant recipients (EnMo) (EnMo)
  • Dr. Tom Blydt-Hansen; Pediatric Renal transplant Optimization with Biomarkers (PROBE)
  • Dr. Tom Blydt-Hansen; TReg phenotype project (TReg)

Investigator-driven research

  • Dr. Jan Freidman; CAUSES
  • Dr. Jeff Terry; Shear Wave Absolute Vibro Elastography in Utero Part 2 (SWAVE-U2)
  • Dr. Kelly Brown; Chronic childhood vasculitis: Characterizing the individual rare diseases to improve patient outcomes (PedVas)
  • Dr. Megan Levings; Secure specimen storage
  • Dr. Nina Rolf; Overcoming the barriers to successful immune therapy for acute leukemia
  • Dr. Raewyn Broady; Secure specimen storage
  • Dr. Rebecca Deyell; A study of Vinbalstine and Temsirolimus in pediatric patients with recurrent or refractory lymphoma or solid tumors including CNS tumours
  • Dr. Jan Dutz; Pilot clinical trial of Ustekinumab in patients with new onset T1D (UST1D) 
  • Dr. Michelle Demos; Pediatric Epilepsy: Using Genomics to Improve Patient Care and Outcomes
  • Dr. Dina Panagiotopoulos; Cellular Mechanisms of Childhood Autoimmunity (SLED)
  • Dr. Kate Chipperfield and Dr. Vilte Barakauskas; Pregnancy and Pediatric Reference Intervals for Safe Medicine (P2RISM)Dr. Ryan Morin; Utilization of Genomic Information to Augment Chemotherapy Decision-Making for People with Relapsed or Refractory Malignancies (POG)
  • Dr. Will Panenka; Canadian Traumatic Brain Injury (CAN-TBI)
  • Dr. Tom Blydt-Hansen; Validating Injury to the Renal Transplant Using Urinary Signatures in Children (VIRTUUS)
  • Dr. Shubhayan Sanatani; Understanding the risk of sudden death in familiar: cascade screening in CPVT (CPVT & TRIO)
  • Dr. Vikram Sabhaney; Precision Medicine for Improvement of the Diagnosis of Pediatric Appendicitis in the Emergency Department (PRIMED)Dr. Paul Rogers; Observational study on the feasibility of collecting comprehensive longitudinal nutritional data on children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer (OncNut)
  • Dr. Sarah Hedtrich; Isolation of Primary Human Keratinocytes and Fibroblasts from Juvenile Foreskin for Skin Research
  • Dr. David Goldfarb; COVID-19 QI Project
  • Dr. Li Wang; Total Whole Blood Bilirubin Validation Study
  • Dr. Rebecca Deyell; Precision Oncology for Young People (PROFYLE)