Biobank recall studies

Did you know that in addition to samples and sample and donor related information, biobank can offer services for clinical studies, resampling or surveys?

Biobank can invite participants to your specific recall study and conduct other research arrangements, such as collecting study specific consents and managing targeted sampling and data collection.

Through biobank, it is possible to invite individuals who have given the permission in the broad biobank consent, to be contacted for additional sampling or new research studies. Approximately 90% of the biobank consent givers allow this. With this permission, it is possible to invite participants to join recall studies through the biobank.

Recall studies can be, for example, clinical studies, surveys, collection of additional samples or taking measurements. The sudy subject cohort can be formed based on e.g. diagnosis, age, use of certain medication, or genomic information (for example, carriers of a certain variant). Inviting the recall study participants can be organized digitally through Tampere University Hospital's OmaTays portal or by traditional letters. Finnish biobanks also have a specific web portal (MyBiobank), where the recall study participants can give their study specific digital consent and where additional information about your research can be shared.

Recall study design according to the research needs

The FCBT biobank can only act as a mediator for the recall invitations, organize the entire recall study on practical level on behalf of the research group, or anything in between, depending on the needs of the study:

• We select the participants according to the research criteria from those who have given the broad biobank consent with the permission and we contact the individuals either by letter or digitally via the OmaTays service
• We collect the research study specific consents digitally
• We can organize sampling and/or adding the sample requests, as well as perform sample analyses (via outsourced services)
• We collect the needed clinical or register data
• Other types of measurements, inquiries and receptions can be also be organized

Ask for more details about the possibilities of biobank recall studies.

Let's plan together a research study that best suits your needs!

Contact

• biopankki@pirha.fi
• 044 473 9462, Service coordinator Enni Makkonen (enni.makkonen@pirha.fi)

When the research plan is ready, recall studies need also the statement from the regional medical research ethics committee, as well as the FCBT biobank's normal data transfer process and agreement.

Sample and data access process in Finnish Clinical Biobank Tampere (FCBT)