Site location: Management hub based at the Westmead Millennium Institute, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Collection centers located across NSW and the ACT.

Contact info:

Web: www.abctb.org.au

Email: jane.carpenter@sydney.edu.au

Contact: Ms. Jane Carpenter MAppSci, FIBMS(UK), Tissue Bank Manager

Date of operations (date of formal start of current bank operation): Establishment phase 2005

Date range of cases (date of first and last case accrued): January 2006 to present

Category of biobank (use following categories; Basic/Translational/Epidemiological/Clinical): Basic/Translational/Clinical

Focus of biobank: Breast cancer

Membership of biobanks (networks, affiliations): ABNA (Australasian Biospecimen Network Association)

Major source of funding for biobank:

Competitive grant funding:

National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (Federal agency)

Cancer Institute NSW (State agency)

National Breast Cancer Foundation

Proportional funding sources for biobank:

Institution core budget: 0% (much in kind and infrastructure support given)

Public targeted donation/foundation: 34%

Grants: 65%

User fees: 1%

Example input statistics (bank as a whole):

Overall response to consent (Yes%/No%/Unknown %): 95% Yes

Total individual cases held: 4,500

% cases associated with fresh-frozen tumor biospecimens: 39%

% cases with paraffin embedded biospecimens: 93%

% cases with blood and blood derivatives: 87%

Example output statistics:

Approximate # of studies supported last year: 7

Approximate # of cases released last year: 2,230 specimens on 395 donors

Publications in past year (based on biobank and users): 6