Composition
1.The person in charge of designing the future development direction, conducting core technology research and development, and delivering top-notch services is the host of the core plan.
2.A management team comprised of one chairman and twelve members may be established by the research specimen processing laboratory .The chairman and members must be an odd number, however the person in charge of the research specimen processing laboratory must be an ex-officio member.
3.The chairperson shall be selected and appointed by the president from among the attending physicians, and the other committee members shall be selected by the chairperson based on the categories that mainly provide specimens, and the representatives of each department shall be appointed after reporting to the president for approval.
4.The term of office of the chairman and committee members is two years, and they can be re-elected if they are reappointed. They are appointed in January of each year. If appointed midway, the term will expire.
5.There is an executive secretary, who will be concurrently appointed by the department of medical research and development to handle the administrative affairs of the deliberation group.
Objective
The pace of biomedical research has moved from genomics to proteomics. By combining basic research and clinical medicine, factors for disease diagnosis and prognosis will be more effectively discovered and even used in the development of new therapeutic drugs. However, regardless of the methodology, there must be sufficient and good-quality samples to verify its findings. For a long time, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Linkou General Hospital have been adhering to the best service to take care of patients, thus attracting a large number of patients for consultation. If the samples taken from patients after consultation can be legally and properly managed and used, they will be the hospitals most valuable asset. On the other hand, many researchers in the hospital have a strong interest in the development, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of human diseases. If you need to collect samples yourself before starting research, access to samples will be an insurmountable problem. Therefore, on January 1, 1995, the hospital established the "Tissue Bank" in the form of a hospital plan.
Goal
The research specimen processing laboratory integrates the "Tumor Bank" of pairs of fresh-frozen tumor and non-tumor tissues and serum collected by the Department of Surgery since 1985 and has reached more than 80,000 pairs so far, as well as tissue paraffins preserved by the Department of Anatomy and Pathology since the 1970s. Blocks and tissue slices are provided to researchers for application. Each fresh tissue is diagnosed and classified by the pathology department, and the representative tissue will be immediately frozen and stored in a -80°C refrigerator. Its basic information (including gender, age, medical record number, and pathological diagnosis) will be stored in the database for easy querying. The research specimen processing laboratory provides human tissue samples to researchers in the hospital, and the organization must first obtain the permission of the human experiment committee and the consent of the patients. The research specimen processing laboratory will provide existing resources to accelerate integrated research and will document the tissues used by researchers and their research topics as a basis for integrating related research and making the hospitals research results more clinically meaningful.