Inter-university collaboration for building a Belgian Biobank network.

The present application aims at pursuing the development of a human Biobank network among the consortium of eight Belgian university hospitals to streamline research opportunities on human materials. This applications aims (i) at implementing convergent SOPs for tissue collection and processing, local databases, legal and ethical rules, and (ii) at linking together Belgian University hospitals through a catalogue software presenting an inventory of samples available for National research purposes in each center.