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The Victorian Cancer Biobank is a not-for-profit consortium of Tissue Banks, supported by the Cancer Council Victoria and the Victorian Government.

Our overall aim is to provide researchers with high quality tissue samples and data in order to facilitate cancer research discoveries that will lead to improvements in cancer diagnosis and treatment.

The Biobank provides biospecimens prepared from a collection of blood and tissue samples, taken with consent from healthy individuals and patients diagnosed with cancer. Some information about the health and treatment of the donors is also collected. The tissue that is collected following surgery is in excess of what is required for diagnosis and would otherwise be discarded.

Academic and commercial sector researchers from within Australia or overseas can apply to the Biobank for biospecimens and information. Before biospecimens are provided to researchers, an impartial panel of scientists and doctors must agree that the project is scientifically worthwhile and a Human Research Ethics Committee must approve the project.

What's New

Opening of new Biobank facility at Austin Health by Minister for Innovation, the Hon Gavin Jennings. Read more ...