Biobank Graz participates in national and international projects and is an active partner in organizations whose goals are to promote cooperations and to strengthen the biobank community. To facilitate national and international cooperation, it is imperative to be actively involved, to exchange views with other biobanks and to drive forward networking. Contact with researchers must also be fostered so that knowledge is exchanged and innovative project ideas are developed and implemented.
Biobank Graz is a partner of:
As a partner of BBMRI.at, Biobank Graz cooperates with:
Biobank Graz is part of BBMRI.at, the Austrian Biobanking Research Infrastructure. BBMRI.at is the Austrian Node of the European Biobanking Research Infrastructure BBMRI.ERIC, which is jointly operated by 20 countries and one international organisation (WHO/IARC).
Within the BBMRI.at work programme, Biobank Graz leads work package 4 „Environmental Sustainability and Biobanking“.
The Horizon Europe project DIOPTRA plans to introduce an innovative solution for early screening and risk assessment of colorectal cancer for everyone. Risk factors and protein biomarkers should be used to identify high-risk cases that require preventive screening (colonoscopy). This non-invasive approach has the potential to significantly improve colorectal cancer screening in medical practice and expand the participation in population screenings. As part of this project, Biobank Graz in cooperation with the Division of Oncology, Division of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery and Barmherzige Brüder Krankenhaus Graz provides expertise, samples and data from pseudonymised CRC cases.
Interreg project
Biobank Graz was a partner in the European project Codex4SMEs (Companion diagnostics expedited for small and medium-sized businesses). This Interreg project, which focused on personalized medicine, aimed to contribute to better healthcare in northwestern Europe and promoted the establishment of a network to support small and medium-sized enterprises.
Biobank Graz offered the following services as part of the project:
