For Researchers
Research and RBGB
If you work as a public-employed clinician or researchers, you have the opportunity to use RBGB to collect biospecimens for your research project or to use biospecimens from our inventory. Currently, RBGB houses the clinical biobanks: the Danish Cancer Biobank, the Danish Rheumatological Biobank, the Danish Diabetes Biobank, the Danish Derma Biobank, the Danish Genetic Biobank, the Danish Screening Biobank, the Danish Whole Genome Biobank, the Danish Covid-19 Biobank, the Danish Eye Biobank, and the Danish Endocrinological Biobank. Also, RBGB houses the donor biobank, the Danish Blood Donor Biobank, and the research biobank, the Danish Research Biobank. This means that RBGB have a wide range of varied, high-quality biospecimens from different groups of patients, blood donors and Danish citizens.
Both retrospective and prospective studies fit into the RBGB infrastructure.
Retrospective Studies
By establishing a collaboration with RBGB, you, as a researcher, can make use of our clinical biobanks for your retrospective studies as we already have an inventory of biospecimens.
Prospective Studies
If you cannot use the biospecimens that are in our inventory and want to start a prospective study, you can use our infrastructure for the collection of biospecimen.
Advantages by collecting via RBGB:
- You do not need to spend time collecting the biospecimens.
- RBGB are in regular contact with the hospital departments who collect blood, tissue and are used to handling biobank materials.
- National standardized collection procedures that ensure high-quality biospecimens.
- Interregional collaboration and cooperation.
- The biospecimens will be registered in our national registration system.
- No expenses for sampling and processing when following RBGB’s standard aliquoting procedures.
- You are guaranteed that clinical data, e.g., age and diagnosis, is available for your biospecimens through registers such as a DMCG, Patobank or DANBIO.
Clinical vs. non-clinical biospecimen
It is only possible to collect, register, and store clinical biospecimen in the clinical biobanks housed by RBGB. Biospecimen are considered clinical when they are collected in a clinical context i.e., as part of a diagnosis, a follow-up, or clinical monitoring.
If your biospecimens are sampled outside of this context, it is possible that they can by collected by the Danish Research Biobank. For enquiries regarding this possibility, please contact the RBGB secretariat.
We are ready to help
The RBGB Secretariat is ready to answer all your questions about our inventory of biospecimen, starting a collection of biospecimens, or possible legal challenges or question. You are always welcome to contact us.
Read more about the road from application to collection and transfer of biospecimens in the document, Guidebook for Researchers.