News
10 April 2024
Sharing the Model of the ADTB Program with the International Biobank Community at ISBER 2024
Dr Gordon recently gave a great talk titled “Australian Donation and Transplantation Biobank: A Research Biobank Integrated Within a Deceased Organ and Tissue Donation Program” at the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER), hosted in Melbourne, Australia.
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18 October 2023
Sharing Insights into the Challenges of After-Hours Sampling at ABNA Conference
Dr Gordon was invited to share the challenges faced by ADTB in collecting samples after hours at the 20th annual Australian Biospecimen Network Association (ABNA) conference took place at SeaWorld on the Gold Coast.
“ADTB is one of a few programs worldwide that facilitate access to healthy human tissue samples immediately after death”, said Dr Gordon.
She explained that while priority is given to viable organs suitable for transplantation, the ADTB program is able to acquire samples from organs unsuitable for transplant, which is vital for studying memory T-cells that reside in organs like the lung.
The considerable logistics involved at all stages of this process were also described.
Adapted from Bio-Babble issued by ABNA in October 2023.
05 September 2023
ADTB Lead Investigator awarded the ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Using organ and tissue samples donated to ADTB, Dr Gordon’s project seeks to expand our understanding of how tissue-resident memory T cells work in humans.
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26 April 2023
ADTB Lead Investigator featured on RRR radio, explaining the importance of organ donation in research
Dr Gordon talks about the importance of organ donation in research in an interview with Dr Shane on Einstein A Go-Go.
