# Centro Risorse Biologiche, Ospedale San Raffaele (CRB-OSR)

Source: https://onco.cc/collections/crb-ospedale-san-raffaele/  
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## TL;DR

The research biobank of San Raffaele hospital in Milan. It stores blood and tissue left over from diagnosis, including samples from leukaemia, lymphoma, lung cancer and neuroendocrine tumour patients, for approved research.

## Summary

The directory describes CRB-OSR as the institutional biobank of IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, set up to organise and standardise the acceptance, registration, processing, conservation and distribution of human material and data for research, to ISO 20387, GCP and GCLP. It has a liquid biobank and a tissue biobank, the latter working with pathology to keep left-over diagnostic tissue, and serves clinical protocols from observational studies to phase I trials. Cancer-related collections read on 4 November 2026 include the haematological diseases biobank EmaBank (157,214 samples from 4,629 donors), the chronic leukaemia biobank CLL-BIO (42,096 from 1,039), the neuroendocrine tumours biobank NET_BANK (12,828 from 585), the lung cancer biobank SMAC-2 (6,380 from 1,108) and the lymphoid tissue biobank BB-LINF (230 from 208).

## Fields

- Kind: Collection
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Also known as: CRB-OSR; San Raffaele Biobank
- URL: https://directory.bbmri-eric.eu/ERIC/directory/
- Holds: The institutional liquid and tissue biobank of IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan, run to ISO 20387; 18 collections in the BBMRI-ERIC Directory, among them haematological diseases (157,214 samples), chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, neuroendocrine tumours, lymphoid tissue and lung cancer.

## Notes

- Directory id bbmri-eric:ID:IT_1383758011993577. Description, juridical person and collection counts read from the BBMRI-ERIC Directory GraphQL endpoint (https://directory.bbmri-eric.eu/ERIC/graphql) on 4 November 2026; counts are what the biobank reported to the directory, not an audit.

## Sources

- Centro Risorse Biologiche, Ospedale San Raffaele (CRB-OSR): https://directory.bbmri-eric.eu/ERIC/directory/

## Connected records

- institutions: [BBMRI-ERIC (Biobanking and BioMolecular resources Research Infrastructure)](https://onco.cc/institutions/bbmri-eric/), [IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele](https://onco.cc/institutions/san-raffaele/)
- cancers: [Neuroendocrine tumours](https://onco.cc/cancers/neuroendocrine/)
- technologies: [Biobanking and tissue procurement](https://onco.cc/technologies/biobanking/)

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