Abstract
The Parelsnoer Institute (PSI) is a collaborative biobanking project of all eight University Medical Centers in the Netherlands which was launched in 2007. Basically, PSI consists of three dimensions: participating institutions, disease entities and a central organization. An executive board for operational management instigates collective strategic and tactic policies and a central team of PSI experts and advisors supports the researchers and the board in establishing and implementing standards and procedures. PSI offers researchers an infrastructure and standard procedures for the establishment, expansion and optimisation of clinical biobanks for scientific research. To ensure patient privacy clinical data is pseudomized and carefully stored in a central database. Human biomaterials are collected according to nationally agreed standards. Currently PSI covers fifteen large disease specific cohorts (the so-called ‘Parels’ or ‘Pearls’) and new ‘Pearls’ are being developed. The Parelsnoer Institute currently (December 2016) has stored more than 538,000 biospecimens with annotated clinical data of more than 30,000 patients. All these materials and data are available for anyone with a bona fide research proposal.
Highlights
(1) Bioresource Overview Project description In 2007, the Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centers (NFU) launched the Parelsnoer Institute (PSI) [1], with the aim of facilitating medical research and innovation leading to better diagnosis, treatment or even prevention of complex disorders [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17]
PSI is a collaborative network of all eight Dutch University Medical Centers (UMCs), known as academic teaching hospitals
PSI consists of three dimensions: participating institutions, disease entities and the central organization with several expert areas
Summary
The Parelsnoer Institute: A National Network of Standardized Clinical Biobanks in the Netherlands. An executive board for operational management instigates collective strategic and tactic policies and a central team of PSI experts and advisors supports the researchers and the board in establishing and implementing standards and procedures. The Parelsnoer Institute currently (December 2016) has stored more than 538,000 biospecimens with annotated clinical data of more than 30,000 patients All these materials and data are available for anyone with a bona fide research proposal. PSI consists of three dimensions: participating institutions (the 8 UMCs), disease entities (currently 15 disease specific groups which are called ‘Pearls’, still expanding) and the central organization with several expert areas. A central team of PSI experts and advisors, working in the participating UMCs, supports the researchers and the board in establishing and implementing standards and procedures. The biobanking protocol of PSI is implemented in all the participating institutions and covers all phases of biobanking; from collection to storage of Sample
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