Biobank  Facility

Our BioBank is a centralized core repository of specimens from various human tissues (saliva, blood, buccal swab etc.) in collaboration with the Neurogenetics research network ensures optimum service, ethics and standards.
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​Vision and goals
The Neurogenetic Research Network of the Child and Youth Mental Health Program provides leadership, tools, resources, and policies in biobanking for the development of excellence biomedical research community, to enable translational research and precision medicine for patients. Dr. Paul Arnold’s Neurogenetics laboratory develops biorepository standards and facilitates Biospecimen  resources that form the basis of evidence-based practices for the storage and guide of clinical and other psychiatric research.

Core areas of activity:

• Development and continuous improvement of policy and ethics for collection and management of biospecimen resources
• Support and develop the program that ensures the best practices for biospecimen collection, barcoding, scanning, handling and processing
• Local and international collaboration to establish biospecimen and biobanking standards as well as facilitate access to biospecimens

 
Personnel:
Paul Arnold, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Director, The Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research & Education
Alberta Innovates Translational Health Chair in Child and Youth Mental Health
Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Medical Genetics
Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
 
S-M Shaheen, MSc, MBA, PM
Biobank Program Manager, Neurogenetic Research Group
Departments of Psychiatry, Medical Genetics, Physiology and Pharmacology
 
Contact
S-M Shaheen, MSc, MBA, PM
Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
HMRB 122, 3330 Hospital Drive NW Calgary, AB T2N 4N1
T +1.403.220.8539,F +1.403.210.9182
Email: [email protected]