Finnish Clinical Biobank Tampere (FCBT)
FCBT is a hospital biobank that collects and stores samples from patients and individuals within three hospital districts in Finland: Pirkanmaa, South Ostrobothnia, and Kanta-Häme. The Biobank specializes in oncological, paediatric, pregnancy, neurological, ophthalmological, and psychiatric sample collections. As of 2024, the biobank has collected various sample types, including blood samples from around 53,000 individuals collected since 2016, and pathology diagnostic tissue samples from over 400,000 individuals, collected since 1963. Sample donors can be re-contacted for follow-up studies, and biobank samples can be linked with health records from several registers.
Study design
Biobank
Number of participants at first data collection
> 53,000 (blood sample donors as of 2024)
> 400000 (tissue sample donors as of 2024)
Recruitment is ongoing
Age at first data collection
Varied (donors)
Participant year of birth
Varied (donors)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1963 (tissue sample donors)
2016 (blood sample donors)
Primary Institutions
Tampere University (Tampereen yliopisto, TAU)
Tampere University Hospital (Tampereen yliopistollinen sairaala, TAYS)
Links
pirha.fi/web/english/for-professionals/finnish-clinical-biobank-tampere
Profile paper DOI
Not available
Funders
Tampere University Hospital
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- Secondary data
- None
- None
- Healthcare data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
