Business Planning for a Campus-Wide Biobank.
Biobanks are resources that facilitate research. Many biobanks exist around the world, but most tend to focus on a specific disease or research area. BC Children's Hospital and BC Women's Hospital are located on the same campus (Oak Street Campus) in Vancouver, BC, Canada. A campus-wide biobank has been established on the site of these two hospitals to collect specimens and annotated data from children or women seeking medical care at either of the hospitals. Such an initiative requires careful planning and consideration of many factors such as buy in and support of key stakeholders, governance, financial planning, and optimizing specimen collection. We developed a business plan to account for the many aspects associated with integrating the "BC Children's Hospital BioBank." This document describes the approach our business plan took for the implementation of our biobank and the progress, including deviations from the business plan. We also provide a perspective on the current status with a focus on sustainability.
1 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, Canada .
Tamsin E
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Tarling
2 Accent Management Inc. , Vancouver, Canada .
Frances
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Lasser
1 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, Canada .|3 Office of Biobank Education and Research (OBER), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada .
Candace
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Carter
1 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, Canada .|3 Office of Biobank Education and Research (OBER), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada .
Lise A M
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Matzke
4 BC Children's Hospital Research Institute , Vancouver, Canada .
Gurm
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Dhugga
1 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, Canada .
Nidhi
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Arora
1 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, Canada .|3 Office of Biobank Education and Research (OBER), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada .
Simon
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Dee
5 BC Cancer Agency , Victoria, Canada .
Jodi
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LeBlanc
5 BC Cancer Agency , Victoria, Canada .
Sindy
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Babinsky
1 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, Canada .|3 Office of Biobank Education and Research (OBER), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada .
Sheila
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O'Donoghue
1 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, Canada .|3 Office of Biobank Education and Research (OBER), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada .
Stefanie
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Cheah
1 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, Canada .|3 Office of Biobank Education and Research (OBER), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada .|5 BC Cancer Agency , Victoria, Canada .
Peter
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Watson
1 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, Canada .|4 BC Children's Hospital Research Institute , Vancouver, Canada .|6 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, BC Children's Hospital , Vancouver, Canada .
Suzanne M
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Vercauteren
D018070:Biological Specimen Banks / Q000191:economics* / Q000941:ethics; D003132:Commerce; D019992:Databases as Topic; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D010934:Planning Techniques
biobank; business planning; sustainability