{"entity":{"id":"taiwan-biobank","kind":"collection","name":"Taiwan Biobank","aka":["臺灣人體生物資料庫","TWB"],"tldr":"Taiwan's national population biobank, which follows more than 200,000 volunteers over years and links their samples to national health insurance records to study disease, including cancer, in people of Chinese ancestry.","summary":"The Taiwan Biobank home page (Chinese), read on 4 November 2026, gives enrolment to 31 October 2026 as 203,147 participants, of whom 108,166 had completed a first round of follow-up, 30,285 a second and 1,823 a third. It describes itself as a biobank of long-term follow-up of people of Chinese ancestry with vertically integrated release of samples and data, linked to the national health insurance database, with consent and withdrawal procedures and ISO-certified personal-data and information-security management.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"Taiwan Biobank","url":"https://www.twbiobank.org.tw/"}],"tags":[],"related":["uk-biobank","biobank-japan"],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":["biobanking"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":["The 'cancer' in the plain-language summary refers to its use as a general population cohort; the home page does not single out cancer and no cancer finding is claimed.","The English site path tried (/en/) returned no content, so facts are from the Chinese home page."],"url":"https://www.twbiobank.org.tw/","holds":"Samples and health data from 203,147 participants in Taiwan (counted to 31 October 2026), with repeat follow-up visits (108,166 completed the first round, 30,285 the second, 1,823 the third) and linkage to the national health insurance database.","maintainer":"Taiwan Biobank"},"route":"/collections/taiwan-biobank/","neighbours":{"collection":[{"id":"biobank-japan","kind":"collection","name":"BioBank Japan (BBJ)","route":"/collections/biobank-japan/"},{"id":"uk-biobank","kind":"collection","name":"UK Biobank","route":"/collections/uk-biobank/"}],"technology":[{"id":"biobanking","kind":"technology","name":"Biobanking and tissue procurement","route":"/technologies/biobanking/"}]}}