Collectives: interstitial lung diseases (ILD), pulmonary hypertension (PH), COPD, ALI/ARDS, pneumonia, lung cancer

Specimens: Blood (EDTA, serum, plasma, Paxgene), bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), lung tissue (fresh frozen, FFPE) from explanted lungs, surgical resections or transbronchial biopsies, primary cells, respiratory condensates (EBC)

Services/biospecimen processing: primary cell isolations (vascular smooth muscle cells/SMC, interstitial and adventitia fibroblasts, type 2 pnemocytes/AEC2, precision cut lung slices (PCLS))

Numbers: >1000 patients in the field of DPLD (IPF, sarcoidosis, exogenous allergic alveolitis), PH, ARDS/ALI and pneumonia (liquid biosamples) >660 explanted lungs (fibrosis ~240, PH ~110, COPD ~90, donors ~100, other entities ~130)

Biobank Information and Management System (BIMS): StarLIMS

IT: european IPF registry/european ILD registry (eurIPFreg: Secutrial®/ eurILDreg: Redcap), UGMLC patient registry/phenotyoisation platform (Redcap, under construction), DZL data warehouse (i2b2)

Networks: DZL-Biobank Platform

Dr Clemens Ruppert
Organisational Director of the UGMLC Giessen Biobank

Clemens.Ruppert@innere.med.uni-giessen.de
Phone +49 641 99-36441

Justus-Liebig University Giessen
UGMLC Giessen Biobank

Medical Clinic II
Aulweg 132
35392 Giessen

Sponsors and partners

German Centre for Lung Research (DZL)