Public Biobanks: Calculation and Recovery of Costs

A group of experts aided development of a cost-related tool for biobank access prices and tested it in three partnership models. A calculation grid developed by an international expert group was tested across biobanks in six countries to evaluate costs for collections of various types of biospecimens. The assessment yielded a tool for setting specimen-access prices that were transparently related to biobank costs, and the tool was applied across three models of collaborative partnership.