Under the umbrella of the German Biobank Node (GBN), biobanks from eleven university hospitals and two IT expert centres formed the German Biobank Alliance (GBA) in 2017, seven more biobank locations joined in 2019, and two in 2020. The alliance partners establish uniform quality standards and make their biosamples available for biomedical research throughout Europe. GBN and the biobanks represented within GBA since 2017 receive funding of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
