Blood samples for the study are processed at the Breakthrough Research
Centre at The Institute of Cancer Research in Chelsea. Up to 200 blood
samples arrive at the laboratory every day and each must be processed
as quickly as possible. The laboratory responsible for this is headed
by Sarah Chilcott-Burns.
Sarah Chilcott-Burns
“I feel privileged to be working on the Generations Study because it is a worthwhile project that will help people. It is an innovative study with almost limitless scope for research, which will run for many decades to come.”
Sarah studied Human Biology at university and also has a Masters degree in Applied Haematology. She then spent 20 years working at Imperial College and the Hammersmith Hospital in London where her role was primarily in the transplantation of leukemic patients and breast cancer patients with aphaeretic haemapoetic stem cell therapy. Now she is the manager of the Breakthrough Generations Study Laboratory, and has been instrumental in maintaining its productivity.
Team members
The members of Breakthrough Generations Study Laboratory are critical to ensuring the processing and storage of study members’ blood samples. Currently the other scientist working in the laboratory is Kataryna Tomczyk (Kasia) who is originally from Poland and has a Masters degree in Biotechnology.
