Platform Biobank

Biobanks analyze, collect and manage clinical and research biomaterials according to standard procedures. The Hannover Unified Biobank is a centralized, modern and unified biobank, which develops and implements exacting biobanking standards for the DZL in Hannover. The Hannover Unified Biobank provides high standards of quality and excellent sample security.

Standardized biobanking at the  DZL sites facilitates sophisticated and secure storage of biomaterials. Biomaterial samples from the clinic and from research are analyzed, collected and managed in the biobanks at the relevant sites.

The biobank platform of the DZL aims to register the existing biobanks at the individual sites, to network them and make them accessible to the research projects of the DZL. A DZL biobanking portal is also currently being established, to be available in the future to all DZL members and networked with alreading existing internet catalogs of biobanks (e.g. the German Biobank Register). In addition, the DZL biobank platform is working towards harmonization of biomaterial collections. The harmonization and unification of the Standard Operating Procedures and further biobanking guidelines dealing with ethics, data protection and quality assurance as well as the recording of clinical phenotyping data are the main tasks of the biobank platform.