How Biorepositories Can Become More Self-Sustaining
In a recent survey of 456 biobanks, 71% of respondents were concerned about funding shortfalls, and 37% identified funding as their single greatest challenge. Biorepositories across academic institutions and integrated health systems often face the dual pressures of underutilized biospecimens and limited financial resources. Maintaining a biobank is resource-intensive, and traditional methods for sharing biospecimens are often inefficient. When valuable samples go unused, it’s not just funding that is lost - it’s a missed opportunity to support critical life science research.
Harness the potential of all untapped multimodal health data and samples
Like you, we are innovators and scientists. We have spent countless hours conducting benchside experiments or refining machine learning models. While those are not easy, and don’t always yield the best results we hope for, we never regret any of it.
What has drained us is not the experiment, nor the modeling, but getting the resources to even start the experiment or train the model.