Our new purpose-built facility was officially declared ‘open’ by the Attorney General, The Hon Martin Pakula MP in front of donor recipients, donor families and other special guests of the DTBV.

On Friday 4 September, the Donor Tissue Bank of Victoria will be proudly supporting Jersey Day to raise awareness of organ and tissue donation and to encourage everyone to ‘have the chat.’

The public will get a sneak peek into the Donor Tissue Bank of Victoria, operating within The Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, with our theatrical performance ‘The Rest is Silence’ which highlights the issue of tissue donation.

The DTBV was approached by the organisers of a unique Melbourne-based arts project, The 24 HR Experience, to tell the remarkable story of tissue donation. The public were granted unprecedented access to the Institute and the co-located DTBV to gain a rare insight into the various processes involved in tissue donation here in Victoria. You can watch the video of this unique event here…

7th World Congress on Tissue Banking, 12-14 May 2014, Melbourne Australia.

Sunday Herald Sun reporter, Evonne Barry wrote about the hundreds of lives that are saved or improved each year by the selfless donation of human tissue, and the critical shortage of donated tissue facing Victorian doctors in this moving article published in November 2008. ‘Priceless Gifts from Beyond the Grave,’ The Daily Telegraph, Nov 2008. […]

This article from The Age addresses the critical shortage of donor skin which can be life-saving for patients with extensive and infected burns.

Daniel, Alison, Tim and John have each benefitted from the generous gift of tissue donation in very different ways. These are their stories, and what they would say to their heroic donors if they were given the chance.

Although there are mechanical alternatives, nothing beats a donated heart valve for the health and livelihoods of the patients of Dr Peter Skillington, Cardiothoracic Surgeon at The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Miss Heather Cleland, Head of the Victorian Adult Burns Service at The Alfred Hospital, knows only too well how donated skin can save the lives of patients with complicated burn injuries.