Asia-Pacific Spatial Translational Research Alliance
A pan-cancer spatial atlas for the Asia-Pacific.
ASTRA is mapping 5,000+ tumours across ten cancer types at single-cell resolution, alongside a fetal developmental reference, to identify oncofetal cell states and predict therapy response.
The atlas
Asia-Pacific populations are thinly represented in global cancer data. ASTRA is building the reference that closes the gap.
Scale
5,000+ tumours
Ten major cancer types, with custom panels designed tissue by tissue.
Reference
Fetal baseline
Developmental tissue profiled alongside tumours, to identify oncofetal cell states.
Method
RNA and protein
Xenium and imaging mass cytometry on the same section, coregistered cell by cell.
Network
Seven countries and territories.
ASTRA began between Sydney and Tokyo and is expanding. Membership is open to laboratories generating or analysing spatial data in cancer.
People
Steering Committee
Meetings
The annual conference
Publications
Work from the alliance
Funded by
Technology partners
ASTRA is supported by the ASPIRE program, a bilateral initiative between Japan's Agency for Medical Research and Development and Australia's National Health and Medical Research Council.
Join ASTRA
ASTRA is expanding across the region. Bring your cohort.
Tell us what you run and which cancers you work on.