Links

National biobanks

• UK Biobank
• UK Human Tissue Bank
• The MRC Fetal Tissue Bank
• Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital Human Tissue Bank
• The Childhood Leukaemia Cell 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

Please report any broken links to ccb@ncri.org.uk