The International Spinal Cord Injury Biobank (ISCIB) is a multi-user biorepository with the mission of accelerating therapeutic development in traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) through improved biological understanding of human injury, and the vision of serving as a global research resource where human SCI biospecimens are shared with researchers around the world. The biobank consists of cerebrospinal fluid and blood samples from individuals who have suffered a SCI as well as spinal cords of individuals who passed away after suffering an acute SCI. With the support of Brain Canada, ISCIB aims to expand its collection of spinal cords into the chronic SCI timeframe, allowing the platform to continue enhancing the capacity of translational research in SCI at a global level.
