Manitoba Interdisciplinary Lactation Centre (MILC), Canada

Certification Status: Complete Education
Registration Status: Completed

Objective: Biorepository of human milk samples

Registered Biobank Name Manitoba Interdisciplinary Lactation Centre (MILC)
Biobank Leader Dr. John Schellenberg
Country Canada
Email for biobank inquiries john.schellenberg@umanitoba.ca
Principal Investigator Dr. Meghan Azad
Website www.milcresearch.com
User Type
  • Mono: A biobank that supports a specific research project, may have few staff members, a small-scale accrual scope with little to no initial intention of releasing or distributing biospecimens to secondary parties
  • Oligo: A biobank that supports several research groups or clinical trials, may or may not be designed to release biospecimens outside their collaborative group
  • Poly: A biobank that has generally a larger accrual scope, resources, and multiple users outside the biobank proper
Poly - Collection aimed at supporting undetermined, multiple users with ethics approved research projects, through a defined access/application mechanism.
Biospecimen Collected: