Cardiff University Biobank (opens in new tab) is a centralised biobanking facility sited at the University Hospital of Wales. It offers high quality human biosamples for research undertaken for patient benefit to academic and commercial organisations. The biobank have established collections from a number of different disease areas and welcome approaches to initiate new collections not already established within the facility.
The facility has the capacity to store up to 900,000 biological samples. Patients and healthy volunteers have kindly donated biological samples to enable researchers to gain a deeper understanding of diseases. The samples are crucial in allowing researchers to find better ways to diagnose, prevent, treat and possibly find a cure to a wide range of medical conditions.
Wales Gene Park is funded by the Welsh Government through Health and Care Research Wales. Hosted by the Division of Cancer and Genetics (DCG) at Cardiff University (CU) School of Medicine, Wales Gene Park supports and promotes genetic and genomic research across Wales, thereby aiding the implementation of the Welsh Government’s Genomics for Precision Medicine Strategy.
Wales Gene Park has worked with patients and families, the public and other partners to bring together in one place as much information as possible about rare disease research projects for Welsh patients – the Rare Disease Research Gateway (opens in new tab).