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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 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.

journal_name

Biopreserv Biobank

journal_title

Biopreservation and biobanking

authors

Henderson MK,Goldring K,Simeon-Dubach D

doi

10.1089/bio.2019.0005

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-06-01 00:00:00

pages

213-218

issue

eissn

1947-5535

issn

1947-5543

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pub_type

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Advancing Professionalization of Biobank Business Operations: Performance and Utilization.