Seville Provincial Node of the Andalusian Public Health System Biobank

The Andalusian Public Health System Biobank is an initiative of the Ministry of Health of the Andalusian Regional Government to promote biomedical research and protect the rights of citizens who donate samples and/or data used in research. It is organised as a network biobank under a common ethical-legal framework and a comprehensive Quality Management System, with a single organisational structure and decentralised activity of its nodes associated with public health centres in each province. In turn, the Seville Platform is made up of the Biobank Nodes located at the Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, Virgen Macarena University Hospital, Hospital de la Merced de Osuna, Virgen de Valme University Hospital and San Juan de Dios Hospital. The Nodes at the Virgen del Rocío and Virgen Macarena hospitals are prepared to manage all the areas of the BBSSPA Process Map, fully attending to research and teaching projects, as well as developing dissemination and training plans.

Services

• Provision of human tissue samples: oncology (and other disease) collections and controls
• Provision of blood, plasma and serum samples
• Provision of body fluids: cerebrospinal fluid, saliva and tear samples.
• Processing: Obtaining derivatives. Blood fractionation, frozen tube sections of tissue, frozen slide sections, fixed tube sections, fixed slide sections.
• Processing: Histochemical staining (haematoxylin-eosin), immunohistochemical staining.
• Provision of tissue in OCT
• Provision of frozen tissue on RNA later
• Provision of tissue fixed and embedded in paraffin wax
• Provision of microarray tissue sections (TMA) with area selection
• Provision of PBMCs
• Training and advice
• Highlight collections of cerebrospinal fluid paired with serum and plasma from neurological pathologies; blood and serum samples from COVID-19 and three-month follow-up; collection of cases of retinitis pigmentosa in Andalusia.
• Highlight: Fresh tissue for generation of biomodels (organoids, PDXs), sample management for clinical trials and genomic platforms, management of blood and derivatives from CTTC Seville for research and teaching projects