About the GBN

BBMRI-ERIC

BBMRI-ERIC is a pan-European infrastructure of national biobank networks.The abbreviation BBMRI-ERIC stands for “Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure – European Research Infrastructure Consortium”. Here, Das GBN represents the interests of German biobanks.

BBMRI-ERIC is building a pan-European biobank research infrastructure to facilitate access to biospecimens and associated data as research ressources and to support high-quality biomedical research. BBMRI-ERIC is funded by the participating member states and their national biobank nodes. The German Biobank Network (GBN) represents the interests of the German biobanks in this pan-European network.

BBMRI-ERIC currently comprises 20 member states and five observers and is hence one of the largest research infrastructures in Europe.

Members: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Slovenia and Switzerland.

Observers: Denmark, Spain, Switzerland, Qatar, Turkey, IARC/WHO