Europe’s Leading Cancer Image Biobank (EUCAIM) Launched by Quibim and European Commission
This partnership is a significant step forward in the fight against cancer. The project will provide a central hub and a federated infrastructure that will link EU-level and national initiatives, hospital networks, and research repositories with cancer images...
New Genetic Biobank Could Help Prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
A state-of-the-art genetic biobank could hold the key to preventing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), potentially saving the lives of hundreds of babies who die from the devastating condition each year.
Developed by the University of South Australia, the biobank...
ViVa: One of Italy’s Largest Research Biobanks to be Launched via Collaboration Between ISS...
An agreement between ISS and SIAD has been signed to build ViVa, which is set to become one of Italy's most extensive research biobanks. This facility will have the capacity to store a diverse range of biological samples, encompassing...
A Living Biobank Of Ovarian Cancer – A Model For Drug Discovery
Synthetic lethality is a circumstance in which a drug is selectively
deadly to cancer cells due to the mutations and genetic changes that have
occurred during oncogenesis and progression. Oftentimes a cancer will lose redundancy,
that is it will jettison certain survival/...
ESPERITE Announced A New Geneva BioBank With Capacity For More Than A Million Samples
ESPERITE is a diversified biotech global group leader in regenerative and precision medicine. Established in 2000, the holding group is headquartered in the Netherlands, listed at Euronext Amsterdam and Paris and operational in over 30 countries.
ESPERITE transforms the power...
Saudi Arabia Launches National Biobank to Enhance Public Health System
The National Biobank in Saudi Arabia was inaugurated by the Health Minister and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Public Health Authority (Weqaya) Fahad Al-Jalajel.
Al-Jalajel said that “this project is one of the important milestones in raising...
DwarnaBio – A National Population-Based Biobank Launched by University of Malta
The University of Malta is announcing the launch of DwarnaBio, a national population-based biobank, that aims to serve as a resource for genomic research in the Maltese population.
Population-based biobanks are critical research instruments in the fields of both common...
Biobank@VITO – Facilitating Biomonitoring In Belgium
Following a Belgium government decree in 2003, the Flemish
Centre of Expertise on Environment and Health was founded by the Department of
Economics, Science and Innovation; Flemish Agency for Care and Health; and Department
of Environment, Nature and Energy. The mandate was...
Biobank Helps Researchers Better Understand Victorians’ Immune Responses to COVID-19 and the Vaccines Efficacy
The Victorian COVID-19 Vaccinees Collection (VC2), established at the Doherty Institute in May 2021, has collected hundreds of participants' saliva and blood samples both before and after vaccinations and infections, providing a resource for crucial investigations into variants, immunity and vaccines...
New Biobank in UK Created to Advance Research on Pediatric and Young People’s Cancers
VIVO Biobank is supported by the charities Cancer Research UK and Blood Cancer UK and will provide cancer researchers with a centralised collection of cell and tissue samples from children and young people affected by cancer across the country.
The samples...
