BIOBANK OF THE HOSPITAL CLINIC OF BARCELONA - IDIBAPS
Biobank
High-quality samples for future research

Biological Fluids Bank (BFB)

The BFB houses liquid biopsy samples, such as blood and blood derivatives (serum, plasma, mononuclear cells, granulocytes), DNA, saliva, semen and urine from over 42,000 donors. The diagnoses include metabolic diseases, inflammatory bowel diseases, respiratory and cardiac diseases, malignant neoplasms, psychiatric diseases, hepatic vascular diseases, maternal and foetal diseases and infectious diseases. It also has samples from healthy donors; the latter being of key importance for comparison with the control situation. Finally, the bank also offers human DNA samples from archaeological sites.  

The BFB, located in the IDIBAPS Esther Koplowitz Centre (CEK building), coordinates multicentre national collections in different networks such as GETECCU, CIBERDEM and CIBERES, and participates as a laboratory providing technical services in various clinical trials. 

AVAILABLE SAMPLES

TYPE  SAMPLES
PBMCs 34.650
Plasma 251.608
DNA 136.908
Cerebrospinal fluid  3.081
Buffy coat 2.274
Blood 40.232
Saliva 2.993
Serum 183.080
Semen 57
Urine 2.938
Blood for RNA extraction 1.100

Updated September 2025

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