{"entity":{"id":"meduni-wien-biobank","kind":"collection","name":"MedUni Wien Biobank","aka":["Biobank of the Medical University of Vienna"],"tldr":"The central biobank of the Medical University of Vienna, which stores samples from many research studies there, including cancer studies, and makes them available to researchers.","summary":"The MedUni Wien Biobank describes itself as a link between basic and clinical research, aimed at enhancing research into emerging biomarkers and therapy strategies. Its juridical person is the Medical University of Vienna. The BBMRI-ERIC Directory lists 343 collections, most tied to a named study and a sample type. Cancer-related examples read on 4 November 2026 include a pancreatic-tumour DNA collection (141 samples from 132 donors) and a blood sample bank in gynaecological oncology (535 EDTA-plasma samples from 453 donors); many others are cardiology, transplant and metabolic studies.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"MedUni Wien Biobank","url":"http://www.biobank.at"},{"label":"BBMRI-ERIC Directory entry bbmri-eric:ID:AT_MUW","url":"https://directory.bbmri-eric.eu/ERIC/directory/"}],"tags":[],"related":["bbmri-eric"],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":["biobanking"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["ccc-vienna"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":["Directory id bbmri-eric:ID:AT_MUW. 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.","Linked to ccc-vienna, OnCo's record for the Comprehensive Cancer Center of the Medical University of Vienna, as the nearest host record."],"url":"http://www.biobank.at","holds":"Blood derivatives, DNA and tissue from studies at the Medical University of Vienna; the BBMRI-ERIC Directory lists 343 collections, among them pancreatic-tumour DNA and a gynaecological-oncology plasma bank.","maintainer":"Medical University of Vienna"},"route":"/collections/meduni-wien-biobank/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"bbmri-eric","kind":"institution","name":"BBMRI-ERIC (Biobanking and BioMolecular resources Research Infrastructure)","route":"/institutions/bbmri-eric/"},{"id":"ccc-vienna","kind":"institution","name":"Comprehensive Cancer Center Vienna, Medical University of Vienna / AKH","route":"/institutions/ccc-vienna/"}],"technology":[{"id":"biobanking","kind":"technology","name":"Biobanking and tissue procurement","route":"/technologies/biobanking/"}]}}