VCB teams at the participating hospitals
The VCB is collaboration between the Cancer Council Victoria and leading healthcare institutions in Victoria. Five academic teaching hospitals across Melbourne currently house our main Tissue Banks; Austin Health, Eastern Health, Melbourne Health, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Monash Health. Each Tissue Bank also collaborates with multiple satellite sites to collect critical masses of specimens for research projects.
Central Operations
VCB General Manager: Dr Wayne Ng
Quality Manager: Ms Samantha Higgins
Data Systems Manager: Mr Duncan Villanueva
Business Development Manager: Mr Jonas Hess
Project Manager: Mr Alwin Tan
Quality Project Lead: Dr Milon Pang
Austin Health
Tissue Bank Head: Associate Professor Kerryn Ireland-Jenkin
Tissue Bank Manager: Ms Angela Mountain
Medical Scientist: Ms Fatimah Ibrahim
Laboratory Technician: Ms Tess Mckay
Eastern Health
Tissue Bank Head: Professor Christopher Gilfillan
Tissue Bank Manager: Ms Susan Hume
Tissue Bank Coordinator: Ms Ashley Rudge
Tissue Bank Coordinator: Ms Tess Mckay
Melbourne Health
Tissue Bank Head: Professor Geoff Lindeman
Tissue Bank Manager: Ms Leanne Graham
Medical Scientist: Ms Karen Velasco
Medical Scientist: Ms Kimmy Zhao
Monash Health
Tissue Bank Head: Professor Beena Kumar
Tissue Bank Manager: Mr Jhoseph Marquez
Medical Scientist: Mr Daniel Simmonds
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Tissue Bank Head: Professor Stephen Fox
Tissue Bank Manager: Ms Samantha Cauberg
Research Assistant: Ms Ashley Rudge
Research Assistant: Ms Mira Liu
Tissue Bank Administration: Ms Lan Zhang