Robert & Maggie Bras and Family New Drug Development Program
The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation
The Bras Family Foundation

Budgets:

1) Preclinical evaluation of new agents in tumour xenograft models

Biobank Capitol Equipment List

Biobank Information Management System
♦     With links to Misys, Cancer Registry, CoPath
$300,000
High throughput digital scanner, TMA lab and IHC image analysis $300,000
♦     Plus extended warranty
♦     Plus image management/server
$50,000
$80,000

Laser capture micro-dissection

$300,000

♦     Plus extended warranty

$50,000

Liquid nitrogen storage tank

$50,000

Nanodrop / Agilent Bioanalyzer / Cytospin

$52,000

Lab furniture

$20,000
SUBTOTAL $1,202,000

Personnel

Research technician II $65,000 + 20% benefits (5 years) $390,000
♦     Processing of blood/fluids, tissue derivatives, QC
Clinical trials nurse (or equivalent) $80,000 + 20% benefits (5 years) $480,000
♦     Consents, bloods, data
SUBTOTAL $870,000

 

TOTAL $2,072.000

2) Testing Canadian Innovation

N/A

3) An Inpatient Drug Development Unit

N/A

4) Upgrading existent laboratory facilities in the Advanced Molecular Profiling Lab (AMPL)

Estimate Costs (5 years)

Space (1,200 sq ft) $750,000
Major Equipment (Sequencer and LTQ-Orbitrap protein mass spec.)
Solexa Sequencer
Protein mass spectrometry: Orbitrap
$1,250,000
$1,000,000

AMPL – X operating personnel costs

Lung/Ovary/Pancreatic/Head and Neck
(10 FTE x 5 Years. Each technician $60,000 +20% benefits)

$3,600,000

*Supplies (profiling gene expression, genomic abnormalities and protein analysis)
Lung/Ovary/Pancreatic/Head & Neck

$8,000,000

**Supplies for germline and pharmacogenetic evaluations
500 Lung, 300 Ovarian, 300 Pancreatic, 500 Head & Neck

$1,600,000
TOTAL $16,200,000

*Supplies per sample:

  • Expression profiling (Affymetrix human exon array)
  • miRNA profiling (Agilent)
  • High density array CGH (Affymetrix 500K snp chip)
  • Proteomic analysis (mass spec.)
  • DNA/RNA isolation
  • Animals (xenograft and drug testing)
  • Other lab reagents, disposables, drugs, etc…


$850

$550

$500

$300

$100

$2,000

$500

TOTAL $5,000

**Supplies for germline studies per sample:

  • 1 million SNP chip
  • Others


$800

$200

TOTAL $1,000

5) New Drug Development Training Program

Salaries for trainees:

Clinical Research Fellows (2 x $70,000 +20% Benefits)
Pharmacist (1 x 70,000 + 20% Benefits)
Graduate Students (2 x $25,000 + 20% Benefits)
$168,000
$84,000
$60,000
Total salaries: $312,000

Other expenses:

(includes, pharmaceutical company employee drug development research and training program, advertising and recruitment costs, contribution for travel to one meeting per year, graduate registration fees, supplies, equipment and incidentals)

$88,000
Total cost of program per year: $400,000
Total cost of program over 5 years: $2,000,000

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