Daniel Catchpoole
A/Prof Catchpoole was appointed Head of the Tumour Bank at The
Children’s Hospital at Westmead in 2001, where he has established a
tissue-based research program within the Children’s Cancer Research
Unit of The Kids Research Institute. A/Prof Catchpoole brings with him
extensive real-world experience in the operations, governance and
regulatory requirements around which biobank driven research must be
practiced. He has experience in the micro-management of teams of
biobankers and research professionals as well as the strategic
management of valuable biobanking infrastructure within a public
hospital.
He has built a strong record for professional networking, bringing diverse
professionals from across the nation into collaborations with singular
themes. This includes being a founding member and first President of
The Australasian Biospecimens Network Association. His leadership in
these and other areas has been recognized across the translational
research disciplines and has contributed to a number of committees at
local, state and national levels. In 2019, he was elected by his
international peers to the position of President of the International
Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER).
A/Prof Catchpoole is expert in building the necessary frameworks
essential for active translational research activity in cancer specifically
involving tumour biospecimens. This includes experience of basic
research into cell and molecular biology, knowledge of clinical pathways
through medical institutions including the pathology departments
practices, everyday management of biobanks and linkage to required
clinical data, the generation of complex genomic and biomedical dataset
by high-throughput technologies (eg microarray and next generation
sequencing) and the high-end computational analysis of complex multidimensional data to draw out actionable knowledge which has clinical
relevance. Throughout, he has full awareness of the ethical, regulatory
and societal standards expected when using human tissue in research.
Hence, he brings broad expertise that builds biobanking services and
infrastructure that cover the full continuum of tissue handling expertise
necessary for sustainable and meaningful biomedical research.
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