{"entity":{"id":"biobanca-ire","kind":"collection","name":"Biobanca IRE (Regina Elena National Cancer Institute Biobank)","aka":["BBIRE","Biobanca IRE"],"tldr":"The biobank of the Regina Elena National Cancer Institute in Rome, set up in 2014, which keeps tissue and blood from cancer patients for research, with collections for sarcoma, melanoma, gynaecological, breast and chest tumours.","summary":"The directory says BBIRE was born in 2014 as the biobank of the IRCCS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute, holding tissue and biological fluids of cancer patients and storing and distributing frozen tissue, FFPE tissue, blood derivatives, cells and cell lines, fluids, nucleic acids and related data. Collections read on 4 November 2026 include its general tissue and liquid collection (70,000 samples from 7,000 donors), sarcoma (2,662 from 525), thoracic tumours (1,207 from 581), female genital tumours (1,239 from 563), endometrial (680 from 327), ovarian (416 from 172), breast (529 from 250) and cutaneous melanoma (328 from 328), with a healthy-donor control set.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"Biobanca IRE (Regina Elena National Cancer Institute Biobank)","url":"https://www.ifo.it"},{"label":"BBMRI-ERIC Directory entry bbmri-eric:ID:IT_1504858990324590","url":"https://directory.bbmri-eric.eu/ERIC/directory/"}],"tags":[],"related":["bbmri-eric"],"cancers":["sarcoma","ovarian","melanoma"],"sections":[],"technologies":["biobanking"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["regina-elena-rome"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":["Directory id bbmri-eric:ID:IT_1504858990324590. 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.","The directory's website for the biobank is the institute's home page."],"url":"https://www.ifo.it","holds":"Frozen and FFPE tissue, blood derivatives, cells and cell lines, biological fluids and nucleic acids from cancer patients at the Regina Elena institute in Rome; 12 collections in the BBMRI-ERIC Directory, the largest a general tissue and fluid collection of 70,000 samples from 7,000 donors.","maintainer":"Istituto Nazionale Tumori Regina Elena"},"route":"/collections/biobanca-ire/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"bbmri-eric","kind":"institution","name":"BBMRI-ERIC (Biobanking and BioMolecular resources Research Infrastructure)","route":"/institutions/bbmri-eric/"},{"id":"regina-elena-rome","kind":"institution","name":"IRCCS Regina Elena National Cancer Institute","route":"/institutions/regina-elena-rome/"}],"cancer":[{"id":"melanoma","kind":"cancer","name":"Melanoma","route":"/cancers/melanoma/"},{"id":"ovarian","kind":"cancer","name":"Ovarian cancer","route":"/cancers/ovarian/"},{"id":"sarcoma","kind":"cancer","name":"Sarcomas (soft tissue, bone, GIST)","route":"/cancers/sarcoma/"}],"technology":[{"id":"biobanking","kind":"technology","name":"Biobanking and tissue procurement","route":"/technologies/biobanking/"}]}}