Norway
Biobank Norway (BN, bbmri.no) is a large-scale national research infrastructure for clinical and population-based biobanks, established in 2011. BN has developed key services and technologies, including implementing automated storage solutions that have enabled the use of biological materials linked to rich research data across numerous Norwegian research environments. BN has facilitated the availability of a range of well described biospecimens and corresponding health related data, including large scale genotyping of 450,000 samples from population studies.
These efforts have contributed to several hundred research projects resulting in a vast number of high-profiled publications. Biobank Norway/NTNU, on behalf of BBMRI-ERIC, coordinates the Horizon Europe project, INTEGRATE Large Medical Cohorts. More about BBMRI.no.
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Areas of expertise
Initiating and running population-based and clinical biobanks.
Digitised biobank data — secure solution for handling of sensitive big data.
Integrating data from multiple sources, such as national and local registries, electronic health records and population studies, mostly accessed through one national entry point.
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Achievements
Nordic Biobank Network funded by NordForsk. The project is led from Biobank Norway and PI Therese Haugdahl Nøst.
The biobank at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) accredited under the international ISO 20387 standard.
As part of the Biobank Norway 4 project, we have compiled a cross cohort, population based genotype dataset for over 450,000 Norwegian individuals within a secure processing environment and analytical work is now in progress.
Achievements linked to calendar year 2025
National Node Director: Prof. Kristian Hveem
✉️ Email: kristian.hveem@ntnu.no
🔗 Web: https://bbmri.no