The NCRI National Cancer Tissue Resource (NCTR) now known as onCore UK

The NCRI agreed in principle in December 2001 that a unified national approach to the large-scale collection of high quality biological samples linked to clinical outcome data was needed. NTRAC was asked to develop a blueprint for such an approach for consideration by the NCRI Partners. It was recommended that the NCTR comprises a distributed network of tissue acquisition and processing centres, embedded within the NHS, underpinned by a state of the art bioinformatics platform.

The NCTR is now known as onCore UK: http://www.oncoreuk.org/