New South Wales Brain Tissue Resource Centre

Certification Status: Approved
Registration Status: Completed
Objective:

The focus of the NSW Brain Tissue Resource Centre is on brain changes associated with alcohol use disorders, schizophrenia and depression as well as healthy aging. We collect post-mortem brain and spinal cord tissue for distribution to accredited research scientists to undertake ethically-approved research studies.

Registered Biobank Name New South Wales Brain Tissue Resource Centre (NSW BTRC)
Biobank Leader Greg Sutherland
Principal Investigator Associate Professor Greg Sutherland
Address Charles Perkins Centre, The Hub, D17. University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Website https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/schools/school-of-medical-sciences/discipline-of-pathology/nsw-brain-tissue-resource-centre.html
Email for biobank inquiries nswbtrc@sydney.edu.au
User Type
  • Mono: A biobank that supports a specific research project, may have few staff members, a small-scale accrual scope with little to no initial intention of releasing or distributing biospecimens to secondary parties
  • Oligo: A biobank that supports several research groups or clinical trials, may or may not be designed to release biospecimens outside their collaborative group
  • Poly: A biobank that has generally a larger accrual scope, resources, and multiple users outside the biobank proper
 Poly - Collection aimed at supporting undetermined, multiple users with ethics approved research projects, through a defined access/application mechanism.
Biospecimen Collected: