by editor | Jun 18, 2015 | Participants
We are fortunate to have a terrific Biobank research team with a yen for travel and good food. Led by Tom Gilbert, the Biobank team of ten has clocked up hundreds of hours flying or driving around south-eastern Australia, to collect and process blood and urine samples...
by editor | May 30, 2015 | Clinicians, Participants, Researchers
Two important events happened in the ASPREE Healthy Ageing Biobank this week. Opening of a new storage facility for biospecimens A new, dedicated long-term cold storage facility to preserve the valuable samples in the ASPREE Healthy Ageing Biobank opened this month....
by editor | May 2, 2015 | Participants
The President of Golden Days FM, Melbourne’s Senior Broadcast radio, recently spoke to Professor Andrew Tonkin, a senior investigator to the ASPREE trial, on the progress of the study. Prof Tonkin (pictured left) is Head of the Cardiovascular Research Unit at...
by editor | Mar 25, 2015 | Clinicians, Participants, Researchers
A recent report that an individual’s genetic make-up could determine whether aspirin had a positive or negative effect on colorectal (bowel) cancer, is inconclusive said a leading cancer researcher and oncologist, Professor Peter Gibbs. Above: Prof Peter Gibbs is a...
by editor | Feb 26, 2015 | Participants
Popular north-east ASPREE team members Sally and Gillian, were delighted to catch up with participants at study updates in Wangaratta on 25th February and Lavington (Albury) on 26th February this year. Associate Professor Robyn Woods, Executive Officer ASPREE gave...
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