Biobank of Institute of Clinical and Preventive Medicine

University of Latvia 

In the Institute of Clinical and Preventative Medicine of the University of Latvia active research is performed in the area of early cancer diagnostics and effective prevention methods, which are also the leading research topics in medicine worldwide.

In October 31, 2016 the University of Latvia Senate approved the creation of the Institute of Clinical and Preventative Medicine. Institute was created on the basis of various successful, long-term collaboration research projects, with the aim of unifying various resources and becoming a valuable collaboration partner for both Latvian and international research organizations.

The Biobank has been created as one of the more important structures with the aim to acquire samples for research. The main purpose of the Biobank is to collect various tissue samples (blood, operation material etc.) with their respective characteristic data and provide the necessary storage conditions.

New tissue collections are regularly added to the Biobank and the number of available nosologies is also growing rapidly. The main clinical base for the Biobank is Riga East Clinical University Hospital, while also actively cooperating with Oncosurgery, Toxicology and Sepsis, Urology and other clinics.

The Biobank infrastructure is constantly being improved upon.