Tissue banks recover, process, store, and distribute tissue for transplantation. Research in the field of tissue preservation at low temperature and high clinical success of transplanted tissue led to increase in the use of stored tissue in major burn and trauma patients. Increased demand for allografts resulted in the establishment of in-house tissue banking activity at major burns centers. Tissue banking organization is a complex system and needs high technical expertise and skilled personnel for proper functioning in a dedicated facility. A tissue bank is an establishment that collects and recovers human cadaver tissue for the purposes of medical research, education and allograft transplantation. A tissue bank may also refer to a location where biomedical tissue is stored under cryogenic conditions and is generally used in a more clinical sense. Research in the field of tissue preservation at low temperature and high clinical success of transplanted tissue led to increase in the use of stored tissue in major burn and trauma patients. Increased demand of allografts resulted in the establishment of in house tissue banking activity at major burns center(s). Large numbers of skin banks were opened near major institutions handling burns patients in the U.S. There are more than fifty operational skin and tissue banks in the U.S. at present. Skin banking is a process in which tissue is removed from a donor's body, tested for suitability as a graft material, packaged and stored and finally reused as a graft.
Market Dynamics
Increasing surgical demands for allografts, demand for bone graft in hip replacements, and femoral head allografts, and increasing incidences of burn patients are the main factors for the growth of the tissue banking market. According to the WHO March 2018 report, about 180,000 deaths are caused by burns every year, majority of the cases occur in low and middle income countries. Moreover, aging population is prone to chronic diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD), glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy.
Private and public organizations are playing crucial role in fulfilling the gap between demand and supply of tissue. For instance, in 2017, MTF Biologics distributed over 550,000 tissue grafts, which was made possible through the selfless donation by 5,700 individuals. These transplantable tissues helped to heal an estimated 400,000 lives in over 50 countries.
Dearth of highly trained professionals to maintain the tissue banks is the major restraining factor for growth of the tissue banking market. For instance, according to ALZFORUM 2018 report, over the last 50 years, the number of neuropathologists on staff at the Netherlands Brain Bank dropped from 65 to about 15.
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