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Fees at the Section of Biobank and Registry Support

New fees at BRS from 1 September 2025

The updated fees below apply from 1 September 2025 and follow market prices nationally.

Please note that the fees apply to academic research at universities. For commercial research in the business sector, full cost coverage applies, which means a different price level and that VAT is added.

Fees are charged with support in the Swedish governmental ordinance (2022:1378) on fees for research infrastructure

 

Fees for general administrative research support at BRS

Checking availablity of samples and/or data

Free of charge

Support regarding ethical review applications

Free of charge

Support in drafting agreements (biobank agreements, MTA, DTA, third country transfers outside of EU/EES)

Free of charge

Administration* of researchers' own sample collections and registers that are made available to other researchers but are not assessed via BRS expert groups*

*E.g. coordinating withdrawal applications, managing research data registers and/or coordinating withdrawal of samples from own sample collection. If researchers also want to use the expert groups, application and withdrawal fees will be added as below.

25 000 SEK + 600 SEK/hour

Other administrative support, such linkage to Navet and preparation of addresses

600 SEK/hour

 

Fees for samples and/or data access in NSHDS and other registers and sample collections that are assessed via BRS expert groups

Advice regarding study design and/or support in the application process

Free of charge

Checking availablity of samples and/or data

Free of charge

Application free

5 000 SEK

Administrative cost for data extraction

20 000 SEK

Administrative cost for extraction of dietary data

5 000 SEK

Administrative cost for preparations regarding sample access

20 000 SEK + Fees for sample management att Biobanken norr

Extensive/complex study designs

Additional hourly rate, 600 SEK/hour

Addition of single variables

Free of charge

Expansion of study population and/or adjustment of sample analyses and/or volumes before samples and data extraction have been determined

Free of charge

Master's project and T-10 project*

*Applies to registry studies that are conducted after an approved suitability assessment. Projects that are part of research that has been approved by the Ethics Review Board pay the usual fees.

Pay only the application fee of 5 000 SEK

Reuse of already retrieved data/bio-marker data and/or samples in a new project

Pay only the application fee of 5 000 SEK

 

An application fee is applied for all new applications received by the expert group, this also applies to student projects and the reuse of already retrieved data/biomarker data and/or samples in new projects.

Amendment applications that concern changes to an ongoing study, such as expanding the study population and/or adjusting analyses before samples and data extraction have been determined, do not involve a new application fee. However, such changes may incur the addition of an hourly rate for complex sample/data extractions.

When expanding a previously completed study, where samples and data have already been provided, a new application fee and fees for new samples and/or data extractions are added. This does not however, apply to the addition of single variables in the same study population.

Calculation example: An uncomplicated blood samples study including dietary data will cost SEK 50 000 SEK + Fees for sample management att Biobanken norr.

 

Fees at Biobanken norr

In addition to the fees at the Section of Biobank and Registry Support, fees are also charged at the laboratory at Biobanken norr for sample handling.

Fees for handling of samples at Biobanken norr (in Swedish)

 

Latest update: 2025-06-24