Journal
BIOPRESERVATION AND BIOBANKING
Volume 17, Issue 3, Pages 219-229Publisher
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/bio.2018.0099
Keywords
value; utilization; biobank
Funding
- Biobanking and Biospecimen Research Program at BC Cancer
- Provincial Health Services Authority
- Canadian Tissue Repository Network
- Institute of Cancer Research
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Terry Fox Research Institute
- Canadian Cancer Research Alliance
- Office of Biobank Education and Research, University of British Columbia
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia
- NSW Health PhD scholarship
- NSW Health Accelerator grant
- Cancer Institute NSW Biobanking Stakeholder Network
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Tumor biobanks have become critical components of the cancer research infrastructure. Consideration of how to place appropriate values on tumor biobanks is important for all stakeholders. At the level of individual biobanks, value is important in determining how to contribute to, utilize, and fund biobanks. At the level of the research system, value is important in determining how to evaluate, rationalize, and sustain or modify the investments in this infrastructure. This review considers approaches and indicators for evaluation of a biobank with a particular focus on utilization, as one important indicator of value, from the perspective of the researcher and funder. The patterns of utilization and the influence of different phases and approaches of research, and types of biobank are described, as well as strategies for biobanks to increase utilization and therefore their value to research.
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