Advancing Professionalization of Biobank Business Operations: Performance and Utilization.

ABSTRACT: Biobanks are now in the spotlight as key enablers supporting preclinical, clinical, and environmental research. Awareness of their value has increased along with the need for these infrastructures to be sustained through business-focused practices. Following our 2017 pilot survey on biobank business planning, we initiated a more comprehensive 38-question multiple-language worldwide survey on biobank sustainability. Two hundred seventy-six biobanks of various sizes and stages of business planning (in place, in progress or none) responded. About two-thirds were established in the last 10 years. Survey results confirm our hypothesis that biobanks with business plans or preparing such plans are trending toward more professional structures. Specific survey data focusing on performance metrics a

SUBMITTER: Henderson MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6588106 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature