Research

IGEA Biobank

What does the Biobank do?

An Biobank It is a resource characterized by a unique solidarity-based purpose, which makes immediately available to researchers a number of biological samples and data that until a few years ago were unimaginable.

La IGEA Nursing Home Biobank, IGEA Biobank, is part of the network BBMRI Italian (Biobanking and BioMolecular Resources Research Infrastructure of Italy), National Node of the European Research Infrastructure of Biobanks and BioMolecular Resources (BBMRI-ERIC), and is responsible for collecting and preserve biological samples e clinical data coming from subjects with different diseases.

Pathologies of interest

IGEA Biobank collects and preserves samples from subjects affected by neurodegenerative diseases (as the Parkinson's disease , Alzheimer's disease), cerebrovascular diseases e inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system which the Multiple sclerosisSamples from healthy subjects are also collected.

Rare diseases

Of particular interest is also the collection of biological samples coming from subjects affected by rare diseases as:

la Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
la Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS)
la Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)
la Myotonic Dystrophy (DM)

How does the biobank work?

Inside IGEA Biobank i biological samples of interest as the plasma, siero, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), DNA, whole blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), are recorded, pseudonymized using dedicated software and subsequently stored in specific freezers at very low temperatures, in order to preserve the quality of the samples for a long time.

Informed consent and clinical evaluation

The subjects who express the will to participate in the biobanking process, both those affected by pathology that the healthy ones are accurately characterized in terms of clinical and cognitive.

This careful and precise evaluation is guaranteed by our multidisciplinary team consisting of:

neurology
Physiatrists
Pulmonologists
Geriatrics
Neuropsychologists
Physiotherapists,
Speech therapists
Occupational Therapists

At any time the subject can access the information from the research project in which he was involved and request the destruction of the biological sample.

Research projects

The champions and associated data collected and stored within IGEA Nursing Home, IGEA Biobank, are used taking into account the specific wishes expressed by the subject in the informed consent.

They can be used in National and international scientific research projects and research projects carried out in Laboratory of Neurobiology for Translational Medicine of IGEA Nursing Home also in collaboration with laboratories belonging to other research centers.

The purpose of Research is to contribute to the study of mechanisms at the basis of neurological pathology of interest and the discovery of new biomarkers useful for the development of a early diagnosis and to predict the course of the disease.

Privacy

The processing of such data is carried out in compliance with the requirements set out in the EU Regulation 679/2016, in a protected and safeguarded manner using encryption systems and access passwords to prevent reading by anyone who has not been previously formally authorised by the Data Controller. data processing.