Cardiobank - database and biopsies of surgical cardiac patients

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Biobanks are currently an essential infrastructure for basic and clinical research. Easy access to human biological samples and their clinical information is critical for research translation, promoting, in the long-term, direct and indirect health costs reduction and improving the quality of life of patients.


Description: The Cardiobank is a biobank of biological samples (biopsies, blood and urine samples, etc.) and their derivatives (RNA, DNA or proteins) donated by individuals with cardiac, vascular or metabolic diseases.

Samples are mainly from the Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de São João Hospital, donated voluntarily with authorization for preservation and future use in biomedical research. Samples are catalogued with dedicated software and stored at -20ºC, -80ºC or -196 ºC [1] [2] according to their nature and specificities. All samples are comprehensively complemented by the clinical background of the patient.


Type of biobank samples and pathologies




Present Data:

All samples are matched with the informed consent form of the individual donor and there is clinical, molecular and histological characterization for certain pathologies and subgroups:

Team

Adelino Leite-Moreira (amoreira@med.up.pt), André Lourenço (aplourenco@med.up.pt) Ana Filipa Ferreira (anafsferreira@med.up.pt), Francisca Saraiva (f.saraiva@med.up.pt) António Barros (asbarros@med.up.pt) Cláudia Mendes (csmendes@med.up.pt) Diana Meireles e Ana Lídia Santos (apoio.fisiologia@med.up.pt) Inês Falcão Pires (ipires@med.up.pt) Isabel Miranda (imiranda@med.up.pt) Marisa Oliveira (smarisa@med.up.pt) Nádia Gonçalves (nadian@med.up.pt)

Comissão Científica

Adelino Leite-Moreira, André Lourenço, António Barros, Inês Falcão Pires, Isabel Miranda, Marisa Oliveira, Nádia Gonçalves

Services

The Cardiobank provides services to the scientific community such as:

How to reach our services

More about us at www.unic.med.up.pt/facilities/cardiobank
All questions should be asked via e-mail: cardiobanco@med.up.pt
For more information about Cardiobank please check the available documents:

Contacts

Cardiobanco
Department of Surgery and Physiology
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto
Alameda Prof. Hernâni Monteiro
4200-319 Porto, Portugal
Telephone: +(351) 220 426 793; +(351) 220 426 793
Email: cardiobanco@med.up.pt