Canadian Biobank Alliance, Canada

Certification Status: Documents Required
Registration Status: Completed

Objective: The Canadian Biobank Alliance (CBA) is growing to be a national biobank system, connecting biobanks across Canada through a common data catalogue, harmonization of practices, novel contractual and research ethics tools for multi-jurisdictional distribution of specimens and data as well as the offering of lab-based science for biobankers. All-together, the CBA is a "one-stop-shop" for researchers in academia, government stakeholders and industry. It processes and connectedness accelerate research responses and collaborations, while active to be ready to respond with a surge capacity in any health emergency. While the CBA emerged from the Coronavirus Variants Rapid Response Network (CoVaRR-Net) during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, it is expanding its utility and relevance in a disease agnostic manner. Its public catalogue, once launched, will enable the discovery of biological specimens from humans and animals, microbes, reagents, wastewater, medical images and more! Please contact us for more information!

Registered Biobank Name Canadian Biobank Alliance
Biobank Leader Angela Crawley
Country Canada
Email for biobank inquiries info@cba-acb.ca
Principal Investigator Angela Crawley
Website https://covarrnet.ca/covarr-net-biobank-data-platform/
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
 Oligo - Collection aimed at supporting several research projects, a research group or a research consortium
Biospecimen Collected:
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