German Biobank Alliance

Hannover Unified Biobank of the Hanover Medical School

Clinical Biobank, Tissue Biobank, Liquid Biobank

About us

The Hannover Unified Biobank (HUB) is the central biobank of the Hannover Medical School (MHH). In addition to several collections of external cooperation partners, HUB manages and stores a large part of the collections of the MHH institutes and clinics. Overall, HUB currently stores around 1.5 million biosamples (body fluids, tissue, cells, microorganisms) from clinical routine procedures, research and clinical studies.

HUB works to the highest quality standards and has been certified according to DIN EN ISO 9001:2015. Standardised procedures and a high degree of automation in the field of sample processing (EasyBlood / ChemagicSTAR, Hamilton) enable a high sample quality. The samples are stored according to the highest safety standards in liquid nitrogen tanks, -80 °C freezers and a fully automated -80 °C storage system (BIOS M, Hamilton). All quality data relevant to biospecimens as well as a minimal data set are stored centrally using a biobank information management system (CentraXX, Kairos). The samples are linked to clinical data via MHH’s data warehouse (DWH). HUB has a data protection concept as well as an ethics vote and is already working with a “Broad Consent” patient consent.

HUB is part of the German Biobank Alliance’s IT Core Team.

Profile

Clinical Biobank, Tissue Biobank, Liquid Biobank

Accreditation and/or certification

Certified, DIN EN ISO 9001:2015

Participation in GBN activities in quality management

Round robin tests

Tissue RNA: 2018, 2019 Liquid DNA: 2018, 2020, 2023 PBMC: 2020, 2021

Friendly audits

2019, 2020, 2021

Key figures

998,427

available liquid samples

1,113,135

available solid samples

98

supported projects in 2021

ISO 9001

certified since 2015

Funding bodies and partners

Contact

Hannover Medical School

Hannover Unified Biobank

Clinical Research Center Hannover

Feodor-Lynen-Str. 15

30625 Hannover

Prof. Dr. Thomas Illig

Scientific Director of the Hannover Unified Biobank

Location

Observer

Partner

Questions?

germanbiobanknode@charite.de

Tel. +49. 30. 450 536 347


Fax +49. 30. 450 753 69 38

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