Merrit, Biankin established a hepatobiliary unit at Bankstown Hospital, Sydney, and in 2007, with a focus on translational research, began integrating this clinical practice with emerging precision oncology research. In 2009, Biankin and Sean Grimmond established the Australian Pancreatic Cancer Genome Initiative (APGI) – the pancreatic cancer arm of the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC). The APGI went on to map and upload the complete DNA read-outs for around 400 pancreatic cancers to the ICGC project, making it one of the largest sets of whole genome sequences for any cancer type. This work took pancreatic cancer from one of the least genetically characterised cancers to one of the best. As part of this work, they received a A$30M infrastructure grant to conduct genomic sequencing in Australia to address issues in pancreatic cancer and to develop the pathways and the questions that could be addressed to understand the underlying molecular complexity and variability of pancreatic cancer and what was clinically and translationally relevant, and look for new targets for future therapies. Pan-cancer assays Following the death of his mentor, Sutherland, from pancreatic cancer in 2012, Biankin focused on analytics and the importance of developing a molecular diagnostic/prognostic test that could guide treatment and the placement of patients into clinical trials. To this end, Biankin co-founded Cure Forward in the USA, where he was the chief medical and scientific advisor from 2012 until 2017, but encountered issues of the reliability, timeliness and cost of existing tests and scalability. In 2013, as Regius Professor of Surgery, Biankin also took up the Directorship of the Wolfson Wohl Cancer Research Centre at the University of Glasgow, and established the Glasgow Precision Oncology Laboratory (GPOL) in 2016 to develop a molecular test to drive his planned precision oncology clinical trials program for pancreatic cancer - Precision-Panc. Analysing data from ICGC and The Cancer Genome Atlas, Biankin and his team realised it would be possible to design a molecular/genomic test for 95% of solid tumours across the range of cancers and in 2019 the Glasgow Cancer Test was released for assessment in the real-world setting of the NHS and from November 2019 became available for research, including for clinical trials, from Agilent Technologies, which holds a non-exclusive global distribution licence. There is also a Glasgow Cancer Test for haematological cancers. Learning healthcare systems The Glasgow Cancer Test was designed to be affordable for use in a public