All liquid (e.g., blood, serum, plasma, saliva, urine) and solid (e.g., tissue, biopsies) biosamples are collected in the ICB-L and stored for future research projects only after the patients have given their consent (informed consent).
In doing so, the highest national and international quality standards (OECD guidelines for “Biological Resource Centers”, ICH-GCP for clinical trials), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the recommendations of the German Ethics Council are followed in order to ensure the security of the samples and clinical data.
To protect patients, all biosamples and clinical data are stored, saved, and evaluated in pseudonymized form so that no direct link to personal data is possible.
After a positive vote by the Ethics Committee Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, samples and associated data can also be passed on to third parties outside the UKSH and the University of Lübeck for research projects (i.e., to national and international research groups or the research-based industry). The transfer of biosamples and/or data to third parties always takes place in anonymized form, so that an assignment to personal data is excluded.
