Biobank Suisse

The foundation biobank-suisse (BBS) is a collaborative network of existing and future research biobanks in Switzerland.

INVITATION

Biobank Lecture Series and 3rd. SwissBig meeting on 9. May 2012 in Bern

For more information and registration please download this flyer (31 KB)

The primary goals are:

to provide researchers a quick overview of available human biospecimens and up to date person related data. Researchers can get a quick overview of the biospecimens available by using the web query interface (go to Find biospecimen)
to provide biobankers with services to further improve the quality of biobanks in Switzerland (e.g. information about up-to-date IT and database software for biobanking; solutions for ethical, legal, and social issues; develop common platform for biobankers; etc.).

BBS was founded in December 2005 as an initiative of Oncosuisse and SWISS BRIDGE with the goal to build a collaborative network of existing and future biobanks for research in Switzerland.

BBS has entered in a closed collaboration with SAKK’s (Swiss Working Group on Clinical Cancer Research) IT department. BBS’s server is run by SAKK and technical support is provided by the SAKK IT department.

BBS is an active member of ISBER (International Society of Biological and Environmental Repositories) the international society of biobanks. BBS also joint BBMRI (an European initiative to build an pan-European network of biobanks.