Human Cardiac Tissue available for Cardiovascular Research

The Heart Tissue Bank is a non-profit biobank that collects and stores biomaterial and clinical data of individuals with and without previously known cardiac diseases. In the Netherlands, all people aged above18 years are eligible for inclusion as a potential future donor. In the whole world, researchers can use the stored heart tissue and related clinical data for their research.

The goal of The Heart Tissue Bank is to boost a wide range of cardiac disease-related fundamental and translational studies by strengthening the cardiovascular research infrastructure with an open-access non-profit biobank. A first step to accomplish this is to further increase awareness of the existence of The Heart Tissue Bank among researchers, clinicians, and potential future donors.

For researchers

Do you perform cardiovascular related research, and do you need human heart tissue to improve your research? The first heart tissues are available in The Heart Tissue Bank, so please contact The Heart Tissue Bank via info@hartenbank.nl to discuss the current possibilities. Are you writing a research project for which you need cardiac samples but you don’t have the local resources to accomplish this? Please don’t hesitate to get in contact to discuss the future possibilities! At www.hearttissuebank.nl you can find additional information on which biosamples are currently collected at The Heart Tissue Bank and about the procedures to obtain them.

More information can be found here.

Source: Dutch CardioVascular Alliance

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