BIOBANK AT THE JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

Location

The Biobank Unit of the Public Health System of Andalusia (SSPA) at the Juan Ramón Jiménez University Hospital is located in the city of Huelva. The unit can be found at the Clinical Management Unit of Pathological Anatomy at the Juan Ramón Jiménez University Hospital.

This Biobank Unit was previously part of the Network of Tumour Banks of Andalusia. Since January 2013, the unit has been part of the Biobank of the Public Health System of Andalusia (SSPA).

Being integrated into the UGC of Pathological Anatomy allows the unit to share infrastructure facilities with the hospital and increase its support to the research community. The unit achieves this by promoting rapid response times facilitated by direct and face-to-face communication with professionals specialized in various fields, offering access to a wide range of samples or data (under the protection of current biomedical legislation), and enabling the adjustment of rates to the benefit of the researcher.

Infrastructure

The Biobank Unit at the Juan Ramón Jiménez University Hospital has an area used for the preservation and conservation of biological samples located at the Huelva Transfusion, Tissue, and Cells Centre.

Professional staff

The unit currently has a Unit Director who enjoys collaboration with the staff at the Huelva Centre for Transfusion, Tissue, and Cell. All of these professionals are associated with the Andalusian Health Service (SAS).

Activities

The main activity of the Biobank Unit at Juan Ramón Jiménez University Hospital is the collection, processing, and preservation of biological samples.

Collections

The Biobank Unit at the Juan Ramón Jiménez University Hospital has stored samples of various types from different pathologies.

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