Biobank Locator
There are currently 211 registered biobanks that have given permission to be listed.
Please note that the list includes both Canadian and International biobanks.
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Name | Country | Principal Investigator | Registration | Certification |
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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 |
KSUMC Biobank Riyadh | Saudi Arabia | Dr. Ayman Abdo, Osman Zin AlAbdin | 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 |
NCIC CTG Tumour Tissue Data Repository Kingston | Canada | Dr. Lois Shepherd | Completed | Approved |
UOHI Biobank Montreal | Canada | Dr. Ruth McPherson | Completed | |
BC Children's Hospital BioBank Vancouver | Canada | Dr. Suzanne Vercauteren | 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 | Complete Education |
FRSQ-RRCancer - biobanque des tumeurs ovariennes Quebec | Canada | Dimcho Bachvarov | Completed | Approved |
RRCancer-Banque Cancers Gynécologiques-LDI/JGH Montreal | Canada | Walter H.Gotlieb | Completed | Approved |
Tissue Repository and database (clinical and experimental) for the study of breast cancer and Q-CROC-03 Montreal | Canada | Dr Mark Basik | Completed | Approved |
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 | |
JGH Central Biobank Montreal | Canada | Dr. Alan Spatz | Completed | Approved |
The Gynecological Cancer Tissue Bank [Formation Of The Gynaecological Cancer Tissue Bank] Vancouver | Canada | Jessica McAlpine | Completed | Approved |
RR Cancer - Banque de la prostate - CRCHUM Montreal | Canada | Fred Saad | Completed | Invite Member |
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 | Paul Hanson | Completed | Documents Required |
banque de tissus ovariens Montréal | Canada | Dr Anne-Marie Mes-Masson | Completed | Certification Form |
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 | Canada | Christian Gülly | 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 | Completed | Documents Required |
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 |
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 | Aizhan Kozhakhmetova | Completed | |
Research Center at King Fahad Medical City Riyadh | Saudi Arabia | Dr. Emad H Kutbi | Completed | Approved |
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 | Canada | Wayne Ng | Completed | |
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 | Complete Education |
IBTR Victoria | Canada | Peter Watson | Completed | Certification Form |
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 | Completed | |
Montreal Neurological Institute Biobank: Clinical Biological Imaging and Genetic (C-BIG) Repository Montreal | Canada | Dr. Jason Karamchandani | Completed | Approved |
UHN Genito-Urinary BioBank (UHN GU BioBank) Toronto | Canada | Dr. Neil Fleshner | Completed | Approved |
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 | Approved |
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 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 |
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 | Complete Education |
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 | Completed | |
Biobank Core Facility Phoenix | United States | Jennifer Eschbacher | Completed | Invite Member |
Institute of Human Virology Nigeria H3A biorepository | Nigeria | Prof. Abimiku | Completed | |
TTR Breast DCIS cohort (PolySia#1) Victoria | Canada | Peter Watson | Completed | Invite Member |
TTR Breast Invasive cohort (PolySia #2) Victoria | Canada | Peter Watson | Completed | Certification Form |
JIPMER PBMC Puducherry | India | Dr.Gautam Roy | Completed | |
VCHRI Clinical Research Unit Biobanking Services | Canada | David Shaeffer | Completed | Invite Member |
Thoracic Oncology Clinical Database and Biobank - Lung Montreal | Canada | Dr. Jonathan Spicer (jonathan.spicer@mcgill.ca) | Completed | Invite Member |
Bathe Lab Calgary | Canada | Dr. Oliver Bathe | Completed | |
NATIONAL LIVER DISEASE BIOBANK NEW DELHI | India | Dr. CHHAGAN BIHARI | Completed | Complete Education |
School of Public Health Tissue Repository (SPHTR) Singapore | Singapore | Prof Teo Yik Ying (Dean) | Completed | Approved |
RegueraLab East Lansing | Uruguay | Gemma Reguera | Completed | |
MMC Tumor Biobank Makati City | Philippines | Jose Maria Avila, MD | Pending | |
ICON Plc Farmingdale | United States | Timothy Sharp | Completed | |
National Biodiversity Cryobank of Canada Gatineau | Canada | Roger D. Bull | Pending | |
MRC/UVRI and London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine Research unit. Entebbe | Uganda | Peter.Hughes@mrcuganda.org | Completed | |
Leucémie lymphoblastique aiguë pédiatrique Quebec | Canada | Isabelle Laverdière | Completed | |
Impart BIOBank Saint John | Canada | https://impart.team/members/ | Pending | |
Sex-differences in integrative determinants of oxygen uptake and biomolecular markers of exercise training | Canada | Dr. Robert Boushel | Completed | |
Caribbean Biobank of Genetic Resources Arima | Trinidad and Tobago | Amalia Hosein | Completed | |
BCC TTR | Canada | Peter Watson | Completed | |
cw | Canada | sg | Completed | |
CPHuman | Canada | Enio Galli Ferlin | Pending | |
CHU Dumont Biobank Moncton | Canada | Rodney Ouellette, Brigitte Sonier-Fergusson | Completed | Certification Form |
Immune Response to Lymphoma (IROL) | Canada | Dr. Brad Nelson | Completed | |
DEPRECATED with BRC 407 by tech@biosample | Canada | Bruce Ritchie | Completed | |
CFTR Biomarkers | Canada | Bradley Quon | Completed | |
Bratman_Lab_Biobank Toronto | Canada | Scott V Bratman | Completed | Certification Form |
HPV_DNA_Study Toronto | Canada | Scott V Bratman | Completed | Approved |
xxx | Canada | xxx | Completed | |
CARMA | Canada | Helene Cote (UBC), Neora Pick (UBC), Deborah Money (UBC), Ari Bitnun (Hospital for Sicj Children, On), Hugo Soudeyns (U of Montreal) | Completed | |
CARMA-PREG | Canada | Helene Cote (UBC), Deborah Money (UBC), Isabelle Boucoiran (Hopital Sainte-Justine, Montreal) | Completed | |
BC Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors Registry and Biorepository | Canada | Brandon Chalazan | Completed | |
Nicklaus Children's Hospital Biobank | Canada | Steve Melnick | Pending | |
York Tissue Bank | Canada | Charles Lacey | Completed | |
CU-Med Biobank | Hong Kong | Prof. Ronald CW Ma and Prof. KF To | Completed | Approved |
Research | Canada | Alan | Pending | |
The Dynamic interplay between bleeding phenotype and baseline factor level in moderate and mild hemophilia A and B (the DYNAMO study) | Canada | Dr. Shannon Jackson (Vancouver site), Dr. C.J. Fijnvandraat (leading site at Amsterdam) | Completed | |
UMMC Biobank | United States | Stephanie C Tanner, MD | In Progress | Complete Education |
Andrew Thamboo | Canada | Andrew Thamboo | Completed | |
DASMAN DIABETES BIOBANK | Canada | DR. MOHAMED ABU-FARHA | Completed | |
The DREAM Study | Canada | Janice Leung | Completed | |
FMT | Canada | Christine Lee | Completed | |
BCLQ Lymphoma | Canada | Dr. Nathalie Johnson | Completed | |
Banque de tissus et de données médicales pour la recherche en urologie au CHU de Québec | Canada | Yves Fradet | Completed | |
The Ottawa Hospital Hematology Biobank | Canada | Dr. Mitchell Sabloff | Completed | |
Intestinal Disease Biobank: Genetic, Functional, and Microbial Studies in Intestinal Disease | Canada | Dr. Aleixo Muise | Pending | |
Institutional Biorepository Core New York | United States | Maria Salpietro | Completed | Documents Required |
UGANDA CANCER INSITUTE | Canada | UGANDA CANCER INSITUTE | Completed | |
Canadian Biosample Repository Edmonton | Canada | Bruce Ritchie | Completed | Checklist Required |
Biobank of tissue, blood, stool, and clinical data associated for research purposes on primary cancers and lung metastases Montréal | Canada | Bertrand Routy | Completed | Approved |
Cancer Predisposition Genetics Biobank MONTREAL | Canada | Dr William D. Foulkes | Completed | Approved |
SingHealth Tissue Repository Singapore | Singapore | A/Prof Kenneth Chang | Completed | Complete Education |
CHTN VUMC | Canada | Dr. Mary Kay Washington | Pending | |
The Canadian Prostate Cancer Biomarker Network (CPCBN) | Canada | Fred Saad | Completed | |
BANQUE DE TISSUS, DE SANG ET DE DONNÉES CLINIQUES ASSOCIÉES À DES FINS DE RECHERCHE SUR LES MÉLANOMES ET AUTRES CANCERS DE LA PEAU DU CHUM | Canada | Simon Turcotte | Completed | |
Le consortium microétalage tissulaire de la Fondation cancer du sein du Québec pour l'évaluation de biomarqueurs (QBCF-TMAC) | Canada | Anne-Marie Mes-Masson, Caroline Diorio, Réjean Lapointe, Morag Park | Completed | |
OBER | Canada | Francis Lynn | In Progress | |
Skin Lesion Bio-Bank (SLBB) Montreal | Canada | Dr. Catalin Mihalcioiu and Dr. Ian Watson | Completed | Invite Member |
CANPREV | Canada | Paul Keown / Karen Sherwood | Completed | |
xxx | Canada | xxx | Pending | |
Leukemia Biobank | Canada | Mark Minden | Completed | |
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Hematologic Malignancy Tissue Bank | Canada | Mark Minden | Completed | |
Biobank for Skin Research | Canada | Youwen Zhou, Jan Dutz, Vincent Ho, Bryce Cowan, Raewyn Broady | Completed | |
University Biobank Limburg | Canada | Jean-Luc Rummens | Pending | |
SAVE BC | Canada | Simon Primstone, Liam Brunham | Completed | |
Bioresource center Ghent | Canada | Catherine Van Der Straeten | Pending | |
The Esophageal and Gastric Data- and Bio-Bank (EGDB Bank) | Canada | Dr. Lorenzo Ferri | Completed | |
Vinmec Tissue Biobank Hanoi | Vietnam | Tien Anh Ngo | Completed | In Review |
Greenle life sciences pvt. ltd. | Canada | Dr. Shaji K. Ayillath | Pending | |
BANQUE D’ÉCHANTILLONS BIOLOGIQUES ET DE DONNÉES (CLINIQUES ET BIOLOGIQUES) À DES FINS DE RECHERCHE SUR LES TUMEURS DES GLANDES SURRÉNALES ET LES PARAGANGLIOMES | Canada | Isabelle Bourdeau | Completed | |
Barretos Cancer Hospital Biobank | Canada | Marcia MariaChiquitelli Marques Silveira | Pending | |
Uncovering mechanisms of resistance to CDK inhibition in breast cancer. | Canada | Christina Addison | Completed | |
Winnipeg Acute TBI Biobank | Canada | Frederick A. Zeiler | Completed | |
NOSi | Canada | Amin Javer | Completed | |
Princess Margaret Living Biobank - PDX (sub core of University Health Network Oncology Biobank) | Canada | Ming Sound Tsao | Completed | |
PREDICT Victoria | Canada | Dr Peter Watson | Completed | Checklist Required |
Ontario Tumour Bank Toronto | Canada | Monique Albert (Director), Dr. John Bartlett (Provincial PI) | Completed | Complete Education |
Biobanque centralisée RaPiD montreal | Canada | Dr Jacques MICHAUD | Completed | Documents Required |
BC Generations Project Vancouver | Canada | Drs. Parveen Bhatti and Trevor Dummer | Completed | Approved |
Alberta Cancer Research Biobank Calgary | Canada | Dr. Jennifer Chan | Completed | Approved |
Manitoba Tumour Bank Winnipeg | Canada | Leigh Murphy | Completed | In Review |
Peter Munk Cardiac Center Cardiovascular Biobank Toronto | Canada | Dr. Filio Billia, Dr. Richard Weisel | Completed | Documents Required |
Toronto Lung Transplant Program Biobank | Canada | Dr. Shaf Keshavjee | Completed | |
The Saudi Biobank Riyadh | Saudi Arabia | Dr. Ahmed Alaskar | Completed | Documents Required |
Princess Margaret Living Biobank - Organoid (sub core of UHN Biobank) | Canada | Ming Sound Tsao | Completed | |
Amplification and Enrichment Platforms for Liquid Biopsy-based Early Prognostication of Cancer | Canada | Roger Zemp | Completed | |
Manitoba Interdisciplinary Lactation Centre (MILC) Winnipeg | Canada | Dr. Meghan Azad | Completed | Complete Education |
QE II Lung Tumor Bank Halifax | Canada | Dr. Zhaolin Xu (PI), Dr. Drew Bethune (co-PI) | Completed | Approved |
The Living Tumor Lab | Canada | Yuzhuo Wang | Completed | |
Saudi Biobank | Saudi Arabia | Dr.JAHAD ALghamdi | Completed |