Queensland Spatial Biology Centre (QSBC)

The Vidyajey Foundation has been generous partners of the Wesley Research Institute since 2016. The Foundation has since funded vital research into the COVID-19 pandemic, prostate cancer, colorectal surgery, endometrial cancer, neurobiology of COVID-19, and recently provided funding to establish the Qld Spatial Biology Centre (QSBC).

Professor John Fraser, Clinical Director of the Wesley Research Institute's newly launched QSBC, said that the cutting-edge approach, using advanced spatial phenotyping technology and pathology diagnostic techniques, holds the potential to reshape the way clinicians combat cancer, as well as a host of other conditions.

"This innovative approach by our hugely talented QSBC researchers has unveiled a level of insight never before attainable, exposing the behaviour of individual cells and their interactions," said Professor Fraser.

"None of this would have been possible without the generous donation by the VidyaJey Foundation to purchase our new PhenoCycler®-Fusion System. The system employs the latest world-leading technology in the field of spatial omics. It's the only one of its type in an Australian hospital and enables spatial phenotyping of millions of cells at an unprecedented scale and speed."