Continuation and Expansion of the National Mesothelioma Virtual Bank for Translational Research

Mesothelioma is rare enough that no single hospital sees enough cases to build a useful research collection alone. Since 2006, one shared virtual bank has solved that by pooling biospecimens and data from multiple sites into a single place investigators can use.

This notice funds continuing and growing that bank: adding more biospecimens — fresh frozen and paraffin-embedded tissue, blood, DNA, RN…