Tissue Repository

The NUH Tissue Repository (TR) is a well-established core facility with infrastructure in bio-banking and data collection. It is a part of virtual national network of biobanks termed as Singapore Integrated Network of Biorepositories (SINB). Its mission is to support multidirectional flow of high quality clinical samples and associated data between biobanks and research institutions in a manner that is safe, efficient and ethical. NUH TR ensures the harvesting, processing and storage of bio-specimens is in accordance with national legislation (PDPA, HBRA) and international best practices laid out by International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER), a leading global organization that promotes and harmonize high quality standards, ethical principles and innovation in the science and management of bio-repositories. TR provides a platform for investigators to access bio-specimen related research and bio-banking resource management services at a fee for service. TR freezers farms at offsite warehouses provide solution in business continuity planning, addressing unforeseen events such as natural or man-made disasters or equipment failure that may render parts or all of inventories unusable. TR’s high throughput automated liquid handler for processing liquid bio-specimen enables TR to support large scale multi-centres projects in bio-banking. These are all made possible through the support of a core of multidisciplinary team in consent taking, bio-specimen accrual, processing, quality control, storage, retrieval, distribution, annotation of associated data and management.