# Susan G. Komen Tissue Bank at Indiana University

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## TL;DR

A tissue bank at Indiana University that collects normal breast tissue from healthy women volunteers, so researchers can compare it with cancer and learn how breast cancer starts. More than 5,000 women have donated.

## Summary

The Komen Tissue Bank describes itself as the world's only biorepository for normal breast tissue and matched serum, plasma and DNA, offering richly annotated samples to scientists worldwide to study breast oncogenesis. It is part of the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center and collects at donation events (the next listed for 14 November 2026 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with the Vera Bradley Foundation). Its home page, read on 4 November 2026, counts 5,211 women who have donated breast tissue, 230 researcher projects and 96 manuscripts using its samples or data; its About page counts 17 years, 60 donation events and 91 published articles.

## Fields

- Kind: Collection
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Also known as: Komen Tissue Bank; KTB; Susan G. Komen Tissue Bank
- URL: https://komentissuebank.iu.edu/
- Holds: Normal breast tissue with matched serum, plasma and DNA, donated by healthy women (5,211 tissue donors on the home page), richly annotated and available to researchers worldwide.

## Notes

- The home page (96 manuscripts) and About page (91 published research articles) give different publication counts; both are as read on 4 November 2026.

## Sources

- Susan G. Komen Tissue Bank at Indiana University: https://komentissuebank.iu.edu/

## Connected records

- technologies: [Biobanking and tissue procurement](https://onco.cc/technologies/biobanking/)
- institutions: [Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center](https://onco.cc/institutions/iu-simon/), [Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation](https://onco.cc/institutions/komen/)

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