COVID-19 BioBank, Canada

Registration Status: Pending

Objective: Receives and processes potential COVID-19 samples from children that have visited the SickKids emergency room

Registered Biobank Name COVID-19 BioBank
Biobank Leader David Xie
Country Canada
Email for biobank inquiries david.xie@sickkids.ca
Principal Investigator Rae Yeung
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
Biospecimen Collected: