National biobanks

UK Biobank

UK Human Tissue Bank

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital Human Tissue Bank

Generation Scotland

ALSPAC (Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children)

Cancer Research UK Bio-specimen Biorepository

Brain biobanking:

MRC London Brain Bank for Neurodegenerative Diseases

MRC HIV Brain and Tissue Bank (Edinburgh)

Sudden Death Brain and Tissue Bank (Edinburgh)

CJD Brain and Tissue Bank (Edinburgh)

UK Parkinson’s Disease Tissue Bank (Imperial College)

UK Multiple Sclerosis Tissue Bank

South West Dementia Brain Bank

Queens Square Brain Bank for Neurological Disorders

Newcastle Brain Tissue Resource

International biobanks

Europe

Biobank Hungary

EU Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Infrastructure (BBMRI)

Tubafrost

Spanish national cancer centre tumour bank

Swedish national biobank program

Tumourbank Bern - Switzerland

Centre of Medical Systems Biology - The Netherlands

GenomEUtwin

National biobank of Finland

Estonian genome project

Nordic centre of excellence linking family-based collections from Nordic countries

HUNT, a Norwegian biobank targeted to cardiovascular health

Biohealth Norway

EPIC - European prospective study of nutrition and cancer

Danubian Biobank Consortium

GATiB - Austria

Genome Austria Tissue Bank

Chernobyl Tissue Bank

BrainNet Europe

Rest of the world:

Australasian biospecimen network

Canadian Tumour Repository Network

New Zealand Organisation for rare disorders

Ontario tumour bank

Singapore Tissue Network

Links to other websites of interest

NCI Office of Biorepositories and biospecimen research

Human Tissue Authority

National Research Ethics Service

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