Up to 500,000 samples and a continuous cold chain

Jena University Hospital can hold up to 500,000 serum, plasma and blood samples from patients with sepsis. What makes this new biobank, which is sponsored by the BMBF, so special is its integrated concept: the handling, sorting and release of samples is fully automated using robotic systems so that the samples are continuously kept at -80°C. "This is unique in a medium-sized biobank" explained the biobank manager and TMF board member Dr. Dr. Michael Kiehntopf during the visit of the TMF biobanking working group to Jena on June 15, 2010. As well as a visit to the biobank, the working group meeting, which was held in Jena, discussed in particular the stance taken by the German Ethics Council vis-à-vis biobanks, the published BMBF guidelines for the promotion of a national biobanking initiative, as well as the development of the German Biobank Registry.

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Impressions

F.l.t.r.: Gastgeber Dr. Dr. Michael Kiehntopf (Verbund PROGRESS, Univ. Jena) und AG-Sprecher PD Dr. Michael Hummel (KKS Charité) sowie Dr. Petra Möbius (Verbund ZooMAP), Fabian Rakebrandt (Kompetenznetz Angeborene Herzfehler), Huberta von Eberstein (Verbund Suszeptibilität gegen Tuberkulose), Sebastian Bartholomäus (Netzwerk Ichthyosen), Prof. Dr. Jürgen W. Goebel (Rechtsanwälte Goebel & Scheller), Martin Lablans (Verbund SkinStaph), Hans-W. Rock (Kompetenznetz Multiple Sklerose), Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening (Kompetenznetz Pädiatrische Onkologie und Hämatologie), Dr. Roman Siddiqui (TMF e.V.), Dr. Thomas Arzberger (Brain-Net), Dr. Christina Schröder (Fraunhofer IBMT), Dr. Thomas Ganslandt (Netzwerk Epidermolysis bullosa), Dr. Klaus Henning (Verbund Q-Fieber), Dr. Sara Demiroglu (Universitätsmedizin Göttingen), Stefanie Grametzki (Verbundprojekt Therapieansprechen und Prognose beim kolorektalen Karzinom), Amalia Vaz Pérez (Kompetenznetz Herzinsuffizienz), Andreas Beck (GCKD-Studie), Jo Peter (Universitätsmedizin Göttingen), Dr. Christian Seyboldt (Verbund Botulinom), Sebastian C. Semler (TMF e.V.). © TMF e.V.