Finland
BBMRI.fi is a research infrastructure comprising ten biobanks in Finland. BBMRI.fi is the Finnish National Node of the European level BBMRI-ERIC. The Finnish Biobanks Cooperative – FINBB has coordinated BBMRI.fi since 2020. FINBB was appointed to this role by Ministry of Education and Culture. More at BBMRI.fi
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Areas of expertise
National one-stop shop biobank services for researchers through Fingenious® services which includes Availability, Request and Recruit Services.
High quality sample collections with associated clinical data derived from Electronic Health records (EHRs), as well as study / population cohorts and expert data analysis capabilities.
Capability and processes to recruit participants to clinical trials and to return biobank study results to participants.
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Achievements
Fingenious.fi – the gateway to Finnish biobanks and biomedical research is enhancing international collaboration. Over 2,000 researchers from 45 countries. Over 500 projects conducted and >2000 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals.
Large biobank study FinnGen is proceeding as planned. Already >500,000 samples collected and genotyped and proteomics analysis on-going.
Large-scale biobank infrastructure development project funded by the Finnish Research Council initiated and on-going. The mission is to build world’s most impactful biobank network.
Achievements linked to calendar year 2025
National Node Director: Tom Southerington, MSc, LLM
✉️ Email: tom.southerington@finbb.fi
🔗 Web: https://finbb.fi/en/