The NSW Health Statewide Biobank is a state-of-the-art facility that offers biobanking services to the research community. NSW Health Pathology is proud to be managing this vital service.

The NSW Health Statewide Biobank was cre­at­ed through a part­ner­ship between the Office for Health and Med­ical Research, NSW Health Pathol­o­gy, Syd­ney Local Health Dis­trict and Health Infra­struc­ture, to sup­port and enable world-class health and med­ical research in NSW.

Exam­ples of sup­port­ed research stud­ies include clin­i­cal tri­als, oncol­o­gy pre­ci­sion med­i­cine research and car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease research.

Our ISO9001-cer­ti­fied and pur­pose-built facil­i­ty, locat­ed in the heart of a renowned research hub at the Pro­fes­sor Marie Bashir Cen­tre at Camper­down, is the first and largest facil­i­ty of its kind in the South­ern Hemisphere.

We offer tech­nol­o­gy to safe­ly process and store over three mil­lion sam­ples for health and med­ical research.

Direc­tor of Biobank­ing-NSW Health, Prof Jen­nifer Byrne says it’s a huge respon­si­bil­i­ty and priv­i­lege to be sup­port­ing such a wide array of sam­ples and spec­i­men types.

“The Statewide Biobank aims to be the pre­ferred part­ner for bio­med­ical and clin­i­cal researchers across NSW, by offer­ing high-qual­i­ty, acces­si­ble and afford­able biobank­ing ser­vices that are tai­lored to research needs. Over the past year, the Statewide Biobank received almost 100,000 new sam­ples and is cur­rent­ly sup­port­ing 38 research projects.

“It’s an incred­i­ble resource for the peo­ple of NSW.”

The Statewide Biobank pro­vides a range of ser­vices to sup­port research projects, clin­i­cal tri­als and biospec­i­men col­lec­tions any­where in NSW, including:
• sam­ple col­lec­tion at NSW Health Pathol­o­gy col­lec­tion sites across the state
• sam­ple pro­cess­ing (such as frac­tion­a­tion, PBMC iso­la­tion, DNA/RNA extraction)
• sam­ple stor­age at room tem­per­a­ture, ‑80C or in vapour phase liq­uid nitrogen
• oth­er ser­vices such as slide scan­ning, and tis­sue microar­ray creation

Our tai­lored ser­vices sup­port high qual­i­ty and cost-effec­tive research, which can lead to improve­ments in patient out­comes and bet­ter health for the peo­ple of NSW.

We also sup­port the NSW biobank­ing com­mu­ni­ty with a range of edu­ca­tion and train­ing, oper­a­tional, research and best prac­tice tools, including:
• NSW Biobank Cer­ti­fi­ca­tion Program
• NSW Health Statewide Biobank seminars
• Stan­dard oper­at­ing pro­ce­dures, tem­plates and agreements
• Health biobank sup­port and collaboration
• Biobank­ing publications

For more infor­ma­tion, please vis­it our web­site: https://biobank.health.nsw.gov.au/

Or call us on 02 4920 4139 or email [email protected]

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