Biobank IR Sant Pau

The Biobank of the Sant Pau Research Institute (IR Sant Pau) is a scientific platform supporting biomedical research. Its main function is the management of human biological samples and associated clinical data, ensuring compliance with ethical, legal, and quality standards (ISO 9001:2015 certified). Authorized by the Catalan Department of Health and registered in the National Biobank Registry (B.0000722), it is part of the ISCIII Biomodels and Biobanks Platform and the Catalan Tumor Bank Network (XBTC).

Services

• Management of biological material requests for biomedical research projects.
• Ethical, legal, scientific, and technical advice for the creation, management, and use of biological sample collections.
• Processing of human biological samples (peripheral blood and derivatives, bone marrow, urine, fresh tissue, among others).
• Preservation and custody of human biological samples under controlled conditions.
• Cryopreservation of viable cells, ensuring their viability and traceability.
• Comprehensive management of collections and associated clinical data.
• Extraction of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) from various types of samples.