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Next to numerous biomedical disciplines, reproductive medicine is one of the important areas in academia and biomedical research where basic science, pre-clinical, translational medicine and clinical research are tightly intertwined. Consequently, in the year 2000, in the State Referral Centre for Diabetes in Pregnancy within Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology the idea for constituting the disease focused bio bank emerged. The core of this bio bank is collection, processing, preservation of maternal and umbilical vein and artery serum, plasma, placental tissue and placental bed biopsy from diabetic and healthy pregnancies. All samples are linked to their respective clinical data. The detailed informed consent from each patient is obtained. This mono user bio bank supports research activities of one or a group of individuals mainly for the scientific projects, clinical studies that examine the effects of modern insulin in pregnancy and deliver quality samples for PhD candidates at the University of Zagreb. At the moment the only source of funding is from scientific projects, and at no administrative cost while the personnel works on volunteer basis. The biobank is organized in several rooms within the Referral Centre and consists from: Office, Archive and PC working place, Donor/Patient area, a room for -80°C and -35°C storage, while tissue and blood work place - is part of Clinical hospital center laboratory. The protocols and quality assurance of blood and tissue collection, preparation and preservation are described in internal manual of bio bank. The ambition of this bio bank is to become the hub for diabetic pregnancy biomedical research through defining the potential end-user prospectively very early in the collecting process and to keep what we have been doing from the start and it is to stay quality focused. |
