Brain Cancer Biobanking Australia

Certification Status: Checklist Required

Registration Status: Completed

Objective:

Brain Cancer Biobanking Australia (BCBA) is a virtual biobank hub established to provide researchers easy access to the amount, quality and type of tissue and associated data they need to accelerate both paediatric and adult translational brain cancer research.

Registered Biobank Name	Brain Cancer Biobanking Australia (BCBA)
Biobank Leader	Mythily Sachchithananthan
Principal Investigator	BCBA Consortium
Address	Lifehouse Building, Level 6, 119-143 Missenden Road Camperdown, NSW, Australia
Website	www.bcba.org.au
Email for biobank inquiries	bcba@bcba.org.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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