Author, as appears in the article.: Santos Gil, Ignacio de Los; Garcia-Merino, Isabel; de Las Cuevas, Natividad; Luis Jimenez, Jose; Gallego, Jorge; Gomez, Coral; Prieto, Cristina; Jesus Serramia, MA; Lorente, Raquel; Angeles Munoz-Fernandez, MA

Department: Medicina i Cirurgia

URV's Author/s: Peraire Forner, José Joaquin / SIRVENT CALVERA, JUAN JOSÉ / Veloso Esteban, Sergio / Vidal Marsal, Francisco

Keywords: Virulence Vaccination Serotypes Recovery Outer-membrane protein Issues Diversity Disease

Abstract: The collection of samples from HIV-infected patients is the beginning of the chain of translational research. To carry out quality research that could eventually end in a personalized treatment for HIV, it is essential to guarantee the availability, quality and traceability of samples, under a strict system of quality management.The Spanish HIV BioBank was created with the objectives of processing, storing and providing distinct samples from HIV/AIDS patients, categorized according to strictly defined characteristics, free of charge to research projects. Strict compliance to ethical norms is always guaranteed.At the moment, the HIV BioBank possesses nearly 50,000 vials containing different prospective longitudinal study sample types. More than 1,700 of these samples are now used in 19 national and international research projects.The HIV BioBank represents a novel approach to HIV research that might be of general interest not only for basic and clinical research teams working on HIV, but also for those groups trying to establish large networks focused on research on specific clinical problems. It also represents a model to stimulate cooperative research among large numbers of research groups working as a network on specific clinical problems. The main objective of this article is to show the structure and function of the HIV BioBank that allow it to very efficiently release samples to different research project not only in Spain but also in other countries.

Thematic Areas: Virology Saúde coletiva Química Medicina veterinaria Medicina ii Medicina i Interdisciplinar Infectious diseases Farmacia Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas i Biotecnología Biodiversidade

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 17424690

Author's mail: sergio.veloso@urv.cat joaquim.peraire@urv.cat francesc.vidal@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0001-7808-5479 0000-0002-6692-6186

Record's date: 2023-02-22

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Link to the original source: https://retrovirology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1742-4690-6-27

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Retrovirology. 6 (27): 27-

APA: Santos Gil, Ignacio de Los; Garcia-Merino, Isabel; de Las Cuevas, Natividad; Luis Jimenez, Jose; Gallego, Jorge; Gomez, Coral; Prieto, Cristina; Jesus (2009). The Spanish HIV BioBank: a model of cooperative HIV research. Retrovirology, 6(27), 27-. DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-27

Article's DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-6-27

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2009

Publication Type: Journal Publications