We are part of the German Biobank Node

German Biobank Alliance: Strengthening research in a network

Under the umbrella of the German Biobank Node (GBN), academic biobanks at 36 locations and an IT development center have joined forces in the German Biobank Alliance (GBA). The GBA biobanks establish common quality standards and make their human biosamples and associated data available for medical research throughout Europe. The biobank of the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry is an observer in this alliance.

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) supports the work of GBN, which is supported by the German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg (DKFZ) in the area of IT as well as the BioMaterialBank Heidelberg (BMBH) and the Integrated Biobank Jena (IBBJ) in the area of quality management. GBN represents the interests of German biobanks within the European research infrastructure BBMRI-ERIC, which focuses on networking and the exchange of experience between biobanks within Europe.