Central Management Hub

Site location: Westmead Millennium Institute, Westmead, NSW

Local contact: Prof Christine Clarke

In your view, what are the most valuable/highest priority cases in your biobanks?

Those with a complete set of samples – blood, fresh tissue and paraffin embedded tissue together with a robust set of clinical data and clinical follow up and outcome information

What are your major challenges?

1) Insecure funding, and the necessity to continuously apply for ongoing funding

2) Collection of long-term (5 years plus) clinical follow-up data once patients have been discharged from their treating physicians

What would you do with $1 million to improve the value of your biobanks?

Obtain high-density genomic and proteomic data on a subset of donors and make these data available to researchers