South Africa’s UWC IMBM Biobank Hosts One of the World’s Richest Microbial Collections
South Africa ranks as the third most biodiverse country in the world. The rich biodiversity is a highly sought-after resource for the development of novel biobased products and processes, and is considered one of the country’s competitive advantages. Research and...
The Shanghai Suburban Adult Cohort And Biobank
The population of China is estimated to be 1.41 billion people, at least 16.87 million of whom live in the Shanghai metropolitan area. The urban landscape has undergone rapid development. In 1990 the percentage of the Chinese population living...
Bioresource Center Ghent
The Bioresource center Ghent – the central biobank of Ghent University Hospital - is an open service center facilitating translational biomedical research. It offers various services, including: advice on biobanking, international quality standards and biobanking protocols
advice on project...
IARC Biobank
Note: The source of some of the information in this article is the IARC Biobank.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is part of the World Health Organization (WHO) and works with international collaborators in many countries around...
Ukraine Association of Biobank
The Ukraine Association of Biobank co-ordinates a network of private, academic biobanks across the Ukraine. The Ukraine Association of Biobank ensures that all member biobanks follow standardized collection and storage procedures that abide by international guidelines including the US...
Biobank Graz
Biobank Graz is one of the biggest biobanks in the world with millions of tissue, blood and DNA samples. Biobank Graz is located at the Medical University of Graz in Austria and stores 20 million samples from around 1.2...
Nottingham Health Science Biobank
The Nottingham Health Science Biobank, located in Nottingham, England, provides researchers with samples for a wide range of cancers and other disease conditions. The Nottingham Health Science Biobank is a trust-led biobank funded by a development grant from the...
Wales Cancer Bank
The Wales Cancer Bank has been collecting tissue and blood from cancer patients in Wales since 2005. They have a Human Tissue Authority license and ethics approval to collect, store and distribute human tissue for cancer-related research. The bank...
10 Largest Biobanks in the World
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