Biobank Locator

There are currently 138 registered biobanks that have given permission to be listed. Please note that the list includes both Canadian and International biobanks.
If you can not find the biobank or types of biospecimens you are looking for, click here for a list of other online resources.

Name	Country	Principal Investigator	Registration	Certification
BC Gastrointestinal Biobank Vancouver	Canada	Dr. David Schaeffer	Completed	Approved
The South Australian Cancer Research Biobank	Australia		In Progress
Australian Breast Cancer Tisssue Bank Sydney	Australia	Prof Christine Clarke	Completed	Approved
BC Generations Project Vancouver	Canada	Drs. Nhu Le and Trevor Dummer	Completed	Approved
College of Medicine Biobank Core Facility Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	Dr. Ayman Abdo	Completed	Approved
Bimetra Biobank	Belgium	Biobank	In Progress	Complete Education
MSTI Biorepository	United States		Completed
Qatar Biobank	Qatar	Dr. Asma Al Thani	Completed	Complete Education
BC Cancer Agency Tumor Tissue Repository Victoria	Canada	Dr Peter Watson	Completed	Approved
RRCancer - Banque cancer de l'ovaire - CRCHUM Montreal	Canada	Anne-Marie Mes-Masson	Completed	Approved
Ontario Tumour Bank Toronto	Canada	Monique Albert (Director), Dr. John Bartlett (Provincial PI)	Completed	Approved
Manitoba Tumour Bank Winnipeg	Canada	Leigh Murphy	Completed	Approved
Alberta Cancer Research Biobank Calgary	Canada	Dr. Randy Johnston	Completed	Approved
NCIC CTG Tumour Tissue Data Repository Kingston	Canada	Dr. Lois Shepherd	Completed	Approved
UOHI Biobank Montreal	Canada	Dr. Ruth McPherson	Completed
Spinal Cord Biobank Vancouver	Canada	BK	Completed	Complete Education
BC Children's Hospital BioBank Vancouver	Canada	Dr. Suzanne Vercauteren	Completed	Approved
PREDICT Victoria	Canada	Dr Peter Watson	Completed	Approved
Actelion Research Biobank Allschwil	Switzerland	Oliver Peter	Completed
ÅTN	Sweden	Åsa Torinsson Naluai	Completed
MUHC-Research Institute Liver Disease Biobank Montreal	Canada	Dr Peter Metrakos	Completed	Invite Member
PROCURE Québec Prostate Cancer Biobank Ville Mont-Royal	Canada	Dr Armen Aprikian, Dr Fred Saad, Dr Michel Carmel, Dr Louis Lacombe	Completed	Approved
University Health Network Biobank Toronto	Canada	Dr. Runjan Chetty	Completed	Invite Member
RRCancer - Banque cancer du sein - McGill Montreal	Canada	Dr. Morag Park	Completed	Approved
Banque de cellules leucémiques du Québec Montréal	Canada	Dr Josée Hébert	Completed	Approved
Quebec Pancreas Cancer Study Montreal	Canada	Dr George Zogopoulos	Completed
The Gynecological Cancer Tissue Bank [Formation Of The Gynaecological Cancer Tissue Bank] Vancouver	Canada	Jessica McAlpine	Completed	Approved
King Fahad Medical City - BioBank Department Riyadh	Saudi Arabia	Mosa Ali Fagih	Pending
The Gage Research Institute Toronto	Canada	James Scott	Pending
Qatar Biobank Doha	Qatar	Dr. Nahla Afifi	In Progress
University of Ottawa Heart Institute Biobank of Human Samples for Research Ottawa	Canada	Dr. Ruth McPherson	Completed	Approved
Korea National Research Resource Center Seoul	South Korea	Yeonhee Lee	Completed
Cardiovascular Tissue Registry Vancouver	Canada	Michael Seidman	Completed	Documents Required
banque de tissus ovariens Montréal	Canada	Dr Anne-Marie Mes-Masson	Pending
Abdomen/peritoneal mesothelioma biobank Vancouver	Canada	Colin Collins, Yuzhuo Wang	Pending
The Rare Kidney Disease & Vasculitis Registry & Biobank Dublin 8	Ireland	Prof. Mark Little	Pending
Alberta Prostate Biorepository Edmonton	Canada	John D lewis, Bryan Donnelly and Adrian Fairey	Completed	Approved
eyeGENE(R) - NIH/NEI Bethesda	United States	Brian Brooks	Pending
Biobank Graz Graz	Austria	Karine Sargsyan	Pending
Uro-Oncology Research Chair	Saudi Arabia	Dr. Danny Rabah	Pending
East West Biopharma Kiev	Ukraine	Tetyana Yurkovska	Completed
QEII Biobank HAlifax	Canada	Sidney Croul, MD, FRCPC Professor, Dalhousie Dept of Pathology	Pending
Labopat Biobank Puebla	Mexico	Silvia Montilla Ph.D	Completed
Children's Cancer Hospital-Biorepository and Biospecimen Research Cairo	Egypt	Rania Labib	Completed
Bristol Biobank Bristol	United Kingdom	Dr Susan Ring	Pending
JDRF Network for Pancreatic Organ Donors with Diabetes Gainesville	United States	Dr. Mark Atkinson	Pending
Biobanque des maladies digestives du CRCHUS Sherbrooke	Canada	Julie Carrier	Completed	Approved
Biobanque des maladies digestives du CRCHUS Sherbrooke	Canada	Julie Carrier	Completed	Approved
Houston Methodist Research Institute Biorepository Houston	United States	Rajeev Singh	Pending
Laboratorio Nacional Biobanco Monterrey	Mexico	Hugo Alberto Barrera Saldaña	Pending
POND McMaster BioBank Hamilton	Canada	Jane Foster	Completed
EFtest biobank Toronto	Canada	Elliann Fairbairn	Pending
SpecTRA Project Biobank Victoria	Canada	Dr. Andrew Penn	Completed	Checklist Required
Guelph ICCI Veterinary Cancer Bank Guelph	Canada	Drs Brenda Coomber and Geoff Wood	Completed
Cardiff University Biobank	United Kingdom	Dr Kate Shires	Completed
Cancer Clinical Research Unit - Correlative Studies Program Toronto	Canada	Amit Oza	Completed
HCRIU, Uganda Cancer Institute Kampala	Uganda	Corey Casper	Pending
Markey Cancer Center Biospecimen and Tissue Procurement Shared Resource Facility Lexington	United States	C. Darrell Jennings, MD	Completed
Brain Cancer Biobank Astana	Kazakhstan	Nurgul Aldiyarova	Pending
Oncology - Doctor Everett Chalmers Hospital Fredericton Fredericton	Canada	Dr. Anan	Completed
Biobanque Québécoise Pédiatrique de Cancers et de Greffes de cellules hématopoïétiques Montreal	Canada	Dr Daniel Sinnett	Completed	Approved
ASK-health	Ukraine	Gramatiuk Svetlana	Completed
UBC/Vancouver Inherited Heart Rhythm Research Bio bank Vancouver	Canada	Dr. Andrew D Krahn	Completed
Victorian Cancer Biobank Melbourne	Australia	Audrey Partanen	Pending
Human Lung Cell Repository Vancouver	Canada	Dr. Tillie-Louise Hackett	Completed	Invite Member
HIV Lung Vancouver	Canada	Janice Leung	Completed
St. Paul's Hospital Cystic Fibrosis Biobank	Canada	Bradley Quon	Completed
HLI James Hogg Lung Registry Vancouver	Canada	Dr. Tillie-Louise Hackett	Completed
Lung Genetics Vancouver	Canada	Andrew Sandford	Completed
Dorscheid Lab Biobank Vancouver	Canada	Dr. Delbert R Dorscheid	Completed
Sin Biobank Vancouver	Canada	Don Sin	Completed
Scleroderma biobank Vancouver	Canada	J Dunne	Completed
Critical Care Research Laboratory Biobank Vancouver	Canada	Keith Walley, John Boyd, Jim Russell	Completed
CanCOLD Vancouver	Canada	Wan Tan	Pending
Research Centre for Women's and Infants' Health (RCWIH) BioBank Toronto	Canada	Dr. S. Lee Adamson	Completed
SickKids Central Biobank Toronto	Canada	Rae Yeung	Completed	Documents Required
IBTR Victoria	Canada	Peter Watson	Completed	Certification Form
Manitoba Tumor Bank Winnipeg	Canada	Dr Leigh Murphy	Completed
PROOF Centre Biobank Vancouver	Canada	Dr. Bruce McManus	Pending
Cardiac Surgery Biobank Toronto	Canada	Bobby Yanagawa	Completed
DNA Biobank "Miras" Almaty	Kazakhstan	Gulnara Svyatova	Pending
Ontario Tumour Bank and St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton Hamilton	Canada	Yaron Shargall	Completed
CRU Hungary	Hungary	dr. Peter Kovacs	Completed	Invite Member
UW Gastrointestinal Seattle	United States	William Grady, MD	Completed
Biospecimen Repository and Processing Lab Toronto	Canada	Teresa Selander	Completed	Approved
Brain tumor cell resource Winnipeg	Canada	Thomas Klonisch	Pending
Clinical Biological Imaging and Genetic (C-BIG) Repository Montreal	Canada	Dr. Jason Karamchandani	Completed
Genito-Urinary Biobank (GU Biobank) Toronto	Canada	Dr. Neil Fleshner	Completed
Biobank for the Molecular Classification of Kidney Disease Calgary	Canada	Dr. Daniel A. Muruve	Completed	Approved
Ottawa Ovarian Cancer Tissue Bank Ottawa	Canada	Barbara Vanderhyden	Completed
Nervous System Tumor Bank, TWH Bobank Toronto	Canada	Dr. Gelareh Zadeh	Pending
HIV HGM BIOBANK Madrid	Spain	PHD.MD. MARIA DE LOS ANGELES MUÑOZ FERNANDEZ	Pending
Auer Laboratory Ottawa	Canada	Dr. Rebecca Auer	Completed
Primary Airway Cell Biobank (PACB) Montréal	Canada	Dr John W. Hanrahan	Completed	Checklist Required
Prostate Cancer Semen Biobank Toronto	Canada	Keith Jarvi	Completed
BC GN Biobank	Canada	Sean Barbour	Pending
MU One Health Biorepository Columbia	United States	Jennifer Schnabel	Pending
The HOOYO Cohort Network Jigjiga	Ethiopia	Abdulaziz Ibrahim, Seile Yohannes	Completed
MASRI Cancer biobank Cairo	Egypt	Dr hesham El Ghazaly	Completed
Duke BRPC Durham	United States	Shannon J. McCall, M.D.	Pending
Atlantic PATH Biorepository Halifax	Canada	Louise Parker, Jason Hicks	Completed	Documents Required
The Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre Biobank Toronto	Canada	Dr. Peter Dirks	Completed	Approved
Banque d’échantillons biologiques et de données (cliniques et biologiques) en transplantation rénale Montréal	Canada	Héloïse Cardinal	Completed	Complete Education
Create Biobank - General Tissue Banking Consents for Biological Waste Material Toronto	Canada	Clifford Librach	Completed	Approved
Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatic Diseases (CARD) Biobank Toronto	Canada	Dr. Rae Yeung	Completed	Approved
Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's Tissue Bank London	United Kingdom	Prof. Richard Reynolds	Completed
Ochsner Biobank New Orleans	United States	Brian Pettiford, MD	Pending
Alberta's Tomorrow Project Calgary	Canada	Dr Jennifer Vena, Scientific Director	Completed	Approved
Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec (IUCPQ) site of the Respiratory Health Network Biobank Québec	Canada	François Maltais	Completed
Alberta Diabetes Institute IsletCore Edmonton	Canada	Dr Patrick MacDonald	Completed	Approved
Alberta Diabetes Institute IsletCore Edmonton	Canada	Dr Patrick MacDonald	Completed	Approved
Alberta Diabetes Institute IsletCore Edmonton	Canada	Dr Patrick MacDonald	Completed	Approved
Human fetal retina	Canada	Rod Bremner	Completed
Multiple myeloma Edmonton	Canada	Ismail Ismail and Chris Venner	Completed
Ontario Health Study Toronto	Canada	Dr. Philip Awadalla	Completed	Approved
NUH Tissue Repository Singapore	Singapore	Dr Eng Chon Boon	Completed	Approved
Carolina Tissue Collaborative LLC dba GLAS Winston-Salem	United States	Dr. Cullen Taylor	Completed
Brain Tissue Biobank at St. Michael's Hospital Toronto	Canada	Dr. David Munoz	Completed	Approved
Trials Clinic Inc. Toronto	Canada	Syed Tajamul Hussain	Completed	Complete Education
PROVAQ Montreal	Canada	Anita Koushik	Completed
Northern Ireland Biobank Belfast	United Kingdom	Dr Jacqueline James, Dr Stephen McQuaid, Dr Claire Lewis	Completed
OMiCS - Optimizing Movement in Children Study	Canada	Dr. Eli Puterman	Completed
Immune Response to Ovarian and other gynaecological Cancers (IROC) Biobank Victoria	Canada	Brad Nelson	Completed
MSTI Biorepository meridian	United States	Dan Walsh, md	Pending
Biomarkers in CF	Canada	Dr. Bradley Quon	Pending
Biobank Core Facility Phoenix	United States	Jennifer Eschbacher	Completed	Invite Member
Biobank of Predictive Biomarkers in Genitourinary (GU) Cancers	Canada	Dr. Kim Chi	Completed
Institute of Human Virology Nigeria H3A biorepository	Nigeria	Prof. Abimiku	Completed
TTR Breast DCIS cohort (PolySia#1) Victoria	Canada	Peter Watson	Completed
TTR Breast Invasive cohort (PolySia #2) Victoria	Canada	Peter Watson	Completed
JIPMER PBMC Puducherry	India	Dr.Gautam Roy	Completed
VCHRI Clinical Research Unit Biobanking Services	Canada	David Shaeffer	Completed
Thoracic Oncology Clinical Database and Biobank - Lung Montreal	Canada	Dr. Jonathan Spicer (jonathan.spicer@mcgill.ca)	Completed
Bathe Lab Calgary	Canada	Dr. Oliver Bathe	Completed
TR	Singapore	Zulkhairil Suradi	Completed
Test Bank	Canada	Brent	Completed	In Review
National Liver Disease Biobank NEW DELHI	India	Dr. Chhagan Bihari	Pending
School of Public Health Tissue Repository (SPHTR) Singapore	Singapore	Prof Teo Yik Ying (Dean)	Completed	Complete Education