Our Facility

CellBank Australia is located on the premises of the Children’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI) at Westmead, NSW. The facility is managed by Associate Professor Jonathan Arthur and operated by a team of highly skilled and experienced cell culture scientists. Professor Roger Reddel is the Director of both CellBank Australia and CMRI.

The facility handles cells in two purpose-built culture rooms: a quarantine room for cells entering the cell bank and a second room for cell lines that have passed quality control. Both culture rooms are positively pressured and function as cleanrooms (ISO14644 class 7). Cultures are grown in separate incubators, handled using standard operating procedures, and tracked using an extensive database that records all culture-related events.

CellBank Australia is a member of the Australasian Biospecimen Network (ABN) and the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER). As such, the facility is aware of best practice in repository management worldwide and strives to meet, or exceed, such best practice guidelines.