The NSW Tissue Resource Centre (TRC) is located in the Department of Pathology at the University of Sydney. The NSW TRC along with the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute TRC form the Australian Brain Donor Programs, which are part of the Australian Brain Bank Network (http://www.nnf.com.au/abbn)
The TRCs collect brain tissues from carefuly selected cases with confirmed clinical and pathological diagnoses fro use in medical research. The TRC's have ethics aproval and all cases have next-of-kin consent. The focus of the NSW TRC is neuropsychiatric disorders including alcohol-related brain damage, schizophrenia, and normal control tissue. The focus of the POWMRI TRC is dementia and movement disorders.
Research groups are invited to submit proposals for studies utilising these tissues. Host institution ethics approval is required from research groups when requesting tissue. A scientific advisory committee from the Australian Brain Donor Programs will review tissue requests and tissues will be made available based on the validity of the research project and tissue availability.
View existing approved tissue requests prior to preparing your tissue request application to ensure your proposed request is unique.
For more information about the TRC please contact: trc@med.usyd.edu.au or phone (02) 9351 2410.
Projects involving alcohol-related disorders and controls:
Mrs Donna Sheedy donnas@med.usyd.edu.au
Projects involving dementia and movement disorders - please contact our Australian Brain Donor Programs partner - the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute Tissue Resource Centre and Brain Donor Program (http://www.powmri.edu.au).
Request Forms
Guidelines for Researchers (including the Material Transfer Agreement) (Download)
Tissue Request Forms (Download)
Material Transfer Agreement (Download)
The NSW TRC is supported by: Sydney South West Area Health Service, the University of Sydney, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Schizophrenia Research Institute, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIH) and the Australian Brewers Foundation.