New biobank to house 45 and Up study
Thursday, 30 March, 2017
NSW Minister for Medical Research, Pru Goward has announced a $12 million investment in Australia鈥檚 first large-scale automated biobank, due to open in 2017.
Sax Institute CEO Professor Sally Redman believes, 鈥淭he ambitious scale of the NSW Health Statewide Biobank will enable the storage of millions of samples鈥� allowing researchers to better understand how to prevent, diagnose and treat disease.鈥�
The Sax Institute鈥檚 鈥�45 and Up Study鈥� is Australia鈥檚 largest ongoing study of healthy ageing, with more than 260,000 participants providing ongoing health and lifestyle information, and its start-up biospecimen collection from over 3000 participants will be housed at the biobank.
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