Research Services

End-to-end research services from Australia’s largest public pathology and forensic provider.

Statewide Pricing Guideline

To deliver better services and outcomes, NSW Health Pathology has developed a standardised approach to pricing pathology services for external research, across all NSW.

Research Access Requests

NSW Health Pathology’s process for accessing biospecimens, data and/or research services requires the completion of the Access Request form (Research Application).

Research Services Prospectus

We’re ready to help you translate your research project into practice. Read more about the research services available to support you.

About our research services

We have a responsibility to ensure new tests and technology are rapidly translated into clinical and scientific practice for the benefit of patients.

That’s why we offer clinical, forensic and NSW Health Statewide Biobank research services.

These range from basic biomedical science such as biomarker discovery, to more complex verification, validation (efficacy) and utility (effectiveness) studies.

We support research and development including:

analytical and/or clinical validation of new tests
evaluations of new technology
services for research using accredited or unaccredited tests
support to store biospecimens in NSW Health’s Statewide Biobank.

You can read more about our research services in our Research Services Prospectus.

Why you should use NSW Health Pathology research services

We’re ready to help you translate your research project into practice and offer:

single-point-of-contact application
transparent, statewide pricing
sample collection at one of our 150+ NSW collection centres
processing and secure sample tracking, storage and destruction
data management, transfer and reporting
transport and storage across our statewide laboratory network, including our purpose-built NSW Health Statewide Biobank.

Statewide pricing

We offer a standardised approach to pricing for external research across all of NSW.

This ensures we deliver better services, value for money and outcomes that matter to our partners.

It makes it easier for you to estimate pathology-related expenses for your research project and ensures consistency across all pathology services in NSW.

Access our research services

If you would like to request NSW Health Pathology clinical, forensic or NSW Health Statewide Biobank services to support your research project, please follow our access request process (Research Application) or contact us.

Biobanking partnerships

NSW Health Pathology has developed a set of biobanking principles to explain how we support the retrieval, processing and/or release of NSWHP material and associated data.

We give priority to biobanks that use the NSW Health Statewide Biobank and assess requests from other biobanks using these biobanking principles.

They apply to new and existing local, national, and international biobanking activities.