Interdisciplinary Bank of Biomaterials and Data Würzburg (ibdw)
Scopes and aims
- Concurrent liquid and solid sampling of human biomaterials using a consistent bio-sample labelling, registration, tracking, storage, and retrieval system enabling parallel analysis of matching blood and tissue samples along the course of the respective disease(s)
- Fully automated storage of bio-samples for 2–5 years (–80°C, immediate access, rapid sample read out, rapid sample compilation)
- Long-term storage for >10 years (–140°C, gas phase liquid nitrogen) for pre-specified liquid BM
- Implementation of a multi-level data storage and access concept ensuring consistency of data and biosample identity under consideration of current data and privacy protection regulations
- Participation in the German Biobank Registry (GBR, Host: TMF), Work Package Leader “Public Relations & ELSI” in the German Biobank Node (GBN), and Member IT Core Team in the German Biobank Alliance (GBA)
Cooperating institutions
- Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research
- Comprehensive Heart Failure Center
- Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) Mainfranken
- Peripheral ibdw-subunits
- Rudolf Virchow Center, DFG-Research Center for Experimental Biomedicine
- Biobanks of the German Biobank Alliance (GBA): Aachen, Frankfurt, Göttingen, Greifswald, Hannover, Heidelberg, Jena, Leipzig, Lübeck, München, (Würzburg)
- Biobank of the blood donors of the Bavarian Red Cross
