{"entity":{"id":"biobank-graz","kind":"collection","name":"Biobank Graz","aka":["Biobank Graz (Medical University of Graz)"],"tldr":"The research biobank of the Medical University of Graz in Austria, which keeps tissue and fluid samples left over from patients' diagnosis and treatment so that researchers can study disease, including many cancers.","summary":"Biobank Graz states its mission as supporting research on the cause of diseases and the development of improvements in diagnosis and treatment. Its juridical person is the Medical University of Graz, the city that also hosts BBMRI-ERIC's headquarters. In the BBMRI-ERIC Directory it lists 540 collections, mostly by organ and preservation method: formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) blocks, FFPE slides and cryopreserved tissue. Examples read on 4 November 2026 include FFPE blocks from the oesophagus (124,449 samples), the cervix (25,513) and the vulva (9,781), and FFPE slides from benign breast tumours (72,100 samples from 7,310 donors).","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"Biobank Graz","url":"http://www.medunigraz.at/biobank"},{"label":"BBMRI-ERIC Directory entry bbmri-eric:ID:AT_MUG","url":"https://directory.bbmri-eric.eu/ERIC/directory/"}],"tags":[],"related":["bbmri-eric"],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":["biobanking"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":["Directory id bbmri-eric:ID:AT_MUG. 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.","OnCo has no record for the Medical University of Graz, so the host is named but not linked."],"url":"http://www.medunigraz.at/biobank","holds":"Human tissue (FFPE blocks and slides, cryopreserved tissue) and fluids from patients of the Graz university hospital; the BBMRI-ERIC Directory lists 540 collections, most organised by organ and preservation type (for example an FFPE oesophagus collection of 124,449 samples).","maintainer":"Medical University of Graz"},"route":"/collections/biobank-graz/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"bbmri-eric","kind":"institution","name":"BBMRI-ERIC (Biobanking and BioMolecular resources Research Infrastructure)","route":"/institutions/bbmri-eric/"}],"technology":[{"id":"biobanking","kind":"technology","name":"Biobanking and tissue procurement","route":"/technologies/biobanking/"}]}}