Table 2.
Economic Parameters of 16 Biobanking Programs
| Name | Funding Sources | Price per Sample | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australasian Biospecimen Network (Australia) | Government (Australia) and public/advocacy | Available upon request |
| 2 | Australian Prostate Cancer BioResource | Government (Australia), commercial, and public/advocacy | Partial cost recovery: |
| A$185 for 20 μm of tissue sections | |||
| A$30 for 0.5 mL of blood products | |||
| A$100 per tissue microarray | |||
| 3 | BancoADN (Spain) | Government (Spain) and university | €1 per μg DNA for non-profit organizations |
| €1.54 per μg DNA for commercial organizations | |||
| 4 | Canadian Tumor Repository Network | Government (Canada) | Available upon request |
| 5 | Centro National de Investigationes Oncologicas Tumor Bank Network (Spain) | Charitable funding, private and commercial donors | €15 per case, additional charges for nonstandard procedures |
| 6 | Chernobyl Thyroid Tissue Bank (Russian Federation) | Government (European Commission, USA, Japan) | No charge for specimens, but researchers may be charged for shipping or additional work on the part of the relevant Eastern European Institute. |
| 7 | Confederation of Cancer Biobanks (UK) | Collaboration between biobanks, each with its own funding sources | Cost recovery, fee-for-service |
| 8 | Cooperative Human Tissue Network (USA) | Government (USA) | Investigators pay a nominal processing fee for samples in addition to shipping. Slides and blocks to accompany frozen or fresh tissue specimens may be available for an additional fee. |
| 9 | EuroBioBank | Government (European Commission) and charitable | Varies by participating bank: processing and shipping fees apply |
| 10 | Kathleen Cuningham Consortium for Research into Familial Breast Cancer (kConfab; Australia) | Government (Australia) and public/advocacy funding | Academic Investigators: |
| A$300 to A$1,500 per year | |||
| Commercial entities: by negotiation | |||
| 11 | onCore UK (UK) | Government and public/advocacy funding | Partial cost recovery |
| 12 | Singapore Tissue Network | Government (Singapore) | Available upon request |
| 13 | Tubafrost: European Human Tumor Frozen Tissue Bank | Government (European Commission) and charitable | Provider negotiates directly with the requestor regarding cost compensation |
| 14 | UK Biobank | Government (UK) and charitable funding | Partial cost recovery |
| 15 | Victorian Cancer Research Tissue Bank (Australia) | Government (Victoria) and charitable funding | Non-profit entities: range from A$18 per H&E section to A$139 per paraffin block. |
| Different scale for commercial entities | |||
| 16 | Wales Cancer Bank | Government (Wales) and charitable funding | Varies according to the type of sample requested |