Health Precincts Biobank - UNSW Biospecimen Services

Certification Status: Approved
Registration Status: Completed
Objective:

The UNSW Biorepository aims to provide translational cancer researchers with high quality biospecimens and related clinical data, in order to facilitate discoveries that will lead to improvements in cancer diagnosis and treatment.

Registered Biobank Name Health Precincts Biobank - UNSW Biospecimen Services
Biobank Leader Anusha Hettiaratchi
Principal Investigator Dr Anusha Hettiaratchi
Address Lowy Cancer Research Centre, UNSW
Randwick, NSW, Australia
Website https://www.analytical.unsw.edu.au/facilities/biospecimen-services
Email for biobank inquiries BiospecimenServices@unsw.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: