Name of bioresource/bank

Kuopio Brain Bank

Name of Principal Investigator
TitleProfessor
First nameHilkka
Last nameSoininen
Address of institution where award is held
InstitutionUniversity of Eastern Finland
Street AddressYliopistonranta 1
CityKuopio
Postcode70221
Country
  • Finland
  • Website

    www.uef.f/neuro

    Contact email (e.g. manager or coordinator)
    Funding source

    BrainNetEurope (PI Irina Alafuzoff)
    University of Eastern Finland
    Kuopio University Hospital

    Q1 What conditions does your resource cover?
  • Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
  • Motor neurone diseases
  • Neurodegenerative disease in general
  • Q2a What DNA collection does your resources hold?
  • 1001-5000 donors
  • Q2b What cell lines does your resource hold?
  • None
  • Q2c What tissue (including post-mortem tissue) does your resource hold?
  • 1001-5000 donors
  • Q3 Are human tissues/samples/DNA from
  • Post-mortem donors: brain
  • Q4 Are tissues/samples/DNA from
  • Healthy individuals/control donors
  • Patients
  • Q5 Can samples be linked to clinical (phenotypic) information and if so, is this information:
  • In a specific study-associated dataset
  • Q6 In what form are samples supplied?
  • Primary Samples: Stabilised samples (frozen or fixed)
  • Q7 Are biomarkers/analytes/biological characteristics already measured and the information available for your samples?
  • In a few samples
  • Q8 What is the status of your tissue/sample/DNA collection?
  • Collection ongoing
  • Q9 What are the rules and procedures for access?
  • Access through collaboration with PI only
  • Applicant needs to provide separate external ethics approval
  • Resource has own ethics approval so usually no need for separate external ethics approval
    • Types: Biobanks
      Member States: N/A
      Diseases: N/A
      Years: 2011
      Database Categories: N/A
      Database Tags: N/A

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