Australian Ocular Biobank

Certification Status: Checklist Required

Registration Status: Completed

Objective:

The Australian Ocular Biobank will serve as a platform for biomedical and translational research, providing human ocular tissue donated from both living and deceased donors with related clinical data. This will facilitate the ease of access to ocular tissue which will assist researchers to understand eye disease mechanisms and pathways and drive the discovery and development of therapeutic treatments.

Registered Biobank Name	Australian Ocular Biobank
Biobank Leader	Jane Treloggen
Principal Investigator	Jane Treloggen
Address	Sydney / Sydney Eye Hospital, 8 Macquarie Street Sydney, NSW, Australia
Website
Email for biobank inquiries	mona.ghabcha@health.nsw.gov.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.

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