Achieving and Maintaining Sustainability in Biobanking Through Business Planning, Marketing, and Access

Henderson, Marianne K.; Goldring, Kirstin; Simeon-Dubach, Daniel

doi:10.1089/bio.2016.0083

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“…When Ethical Tissue was founded in 2007 the aims were a) to provide a researcher led tissue supply service across most diseases and conditions, b) to make it as simple as possible for researchers to access tissues, c) to maximise tissue supply and minimise tissue banking, "supply not store" and d) to be self-sustaining through a cost recovery model [1] Sustainability and sound business planning has become increasingly important due to constrained budgets in higher education institutes and elsewhere [2,3]. Currently ET recovers over 80% of its costs through service charges to researchers.…”

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confidence: 99%

Ethical Tissue: A Bioresource Specialising in Broad Prospective Supply of Tissue from a Wide Range of Participants

Adams

Burrill

Mullarkey

2020

Open Journal of Bioresources

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Ethical Tissue (ET) is a Research Tissue Bank specialising in researcher led prospective collection of tissues. ET does not focus on specific conditions nor is it restricted in who it can supply. We consider requests for any type of tissue, including biofluids such as blood, serum, plasma and urine, from researchers in academia or industry from any part of the world. Tissues and biofluids are collected under generic and lasting consent, maximising reuse/sharing potential. ET also provides tissue processing services including tissue micro-arrays from both fresh frozen tissues and FFPE blocks, primary cell cultures, subcellular fractions and DNA/RNA preparations. A list of banked tissues, including biofluids, cell lines and processed samples is available on the ET website.

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Section: Project Descriptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethical Tissue: A Bioresource Specialising in Broad Prospective Supply of Tissue from a Wide Range of Participants

Adams

Burrill

Mullarkey

2020

Open Journal of Bioresources

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“…24 Such a plan is needed to ensure that information about the bioresource and services the bioresource can provide is widely communicated. 9 Continual review of a bioresource strategic plan and ongoing activities is essential to make sure that the biospecimens and associated data that are being collected meet the needs of current investigators. Active review of utilization targets and continued engagement with researchers accessing the bioresource will help determine adjustments that may be needed in the services provided.…”

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“…This may require reallocation of resources to ensure that the collection and distribution of biospecimens are on target as well as identify adjustments that may be needed to bioresource marketing strategies. 9,23 Bioresource marketing strategies are discussed further in a subsequent section.…”

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“…Furthermore, effective utilization of biospecimens is a key factor in bioresource sustainability, especially as bioresources need to demonstrate use to justify continued support to sponsors and funding agencies and to obtain adequate cost recovery. 8,9 Finally, bioresources cannot foster biomedical and scientific advances if their biospecimens are not well utilized.…”

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Ensuring Effective Utilization of Biospecimens: Design, Marketing, and Other Important Approaches

Bledsoe¹,

Sexton

2019

Biopreservation and Biobanking

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A number of studies have shown that underutilization of biospecimens from bioresources (biobanks and biorepositories) is a significant concern. In addition, biospecimen underutilization has been identified as an ethical as well as practical concern. The utilization of biospecimens is affected by many factors, including the establishment of a scientific need for the biospecimens, the design of the bioresource, strategic planning, biospecimen quality and fitness for purpose, informed consent considerations, access policies and procedures, and marketing. This article discusses the impact of these factors on biospecimen utilization and provides suggestions for how bioresources can optimize biospecimen utilization from their collections.

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“…As a result, over recent years biobanks have been increasingly considering strategies to ensure their long-term sustainability and success, and more examples of this are emerging and being shared. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] We have previously highlighted that the business planning required for an underlying strategy toward the goal of sustainability is not a ''one size fits all model,'' because of the huge variability in biobank type, purpose, and operational models. Each biobank can consider examples shared by others, to look at the key pillars of sustainability-operational, financial, and social, to support their own business planning.…”

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Advancing Professionalization of Biobank Business Operations: Performance and Utilization

Henderson

Goldring

Simeon-Dubach³

2019

Biopreservation and Biobanking

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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 and utilization, as related to sustainability, are presented. Biobanks most frequently measured basic performance metrics (sample utilization, samples collected, samples distributed, internal projects supported). Metrics less often reported included sample and data quality, cost recovery, citations, and publications, typically correlating with higher levels of biobank complexity and professionalism. Biobanks reported supporting projects for both internal and external use, with support of projects within their own organizations as the main driver of biobanks, independent of business plan status. Having a business plan seemed to be a key factor for biobanks that had developed sustained support for external commercial projects. While under half of the biobanks reported both target and actual utilization rates, the responses provided valuable data on utilization. Target utilization rates were much higher (2.5 to 5 times higher) than the rate of actual use. Many of the biobanks report less than 10% utilization. Biobanks with low utilization rates make sustainability a very distant and likely unreachable goal. Our survey has provided some basic data about biobank business planning globally. Continued research should be done, with the data and information shared within the community for the good of all biobank stakeholders.

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Achieving and Maintaining Sustainability in Biobanking Through Business Planning, Marketing, and Access

Cited by 17 publications

References 23 publications

Ethical Tissue: A Bioresource Specialising in Broad Prospective Supply of Tissue from a Wide Range of Participants

Ethical Tissue: A Bioresource Specialising in Broad Prospective Supply of Tissue from a Wide Range of Participants

Ensuring Effective Utilization of Biospecimens: Design, Marketing, and Other Important Approaches

Advancing Professionalization of Biobank Business Operations: Performance and Utilization

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