The strategic partnership significantly enhances the development of the Centre’s Biobank and Biomedical Research, as well as the Research and Innovation pillar of the SHSO
The agreement signed on Tuesday 08 July, between the biobank.cy Centre of Excellence for Biobanking and Biomedical Research of the University of Cyprus and the State Health Services Organisation (SHSO), marks the beginning of a new era for scientific biomedical research to shape a healthier tomorrow for all.
With the signing of the agreement, SHSO becomes a strategic partner in the joint effort to strengthen the Biobank as a project co-funded by the Republic of Cyprus for the benefit of the health of the Cypriot population. Accordingly, the Centre gains a strong ally in its mission to generate new knowledge that will contribute to the prevention, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of diseases.
The two Organizations will work together to achieve the goal of enrolling volunteers through the SHSO inpatient clinics. To this end, the Centre will gain access to public hospitals for registration and sample collection by the biobank.cy nursing team, in full compliance with data protection regulations.
In addition, the agreement significantly strengthens the strategy of the SHSO to highlight research and innovation as key pillars of its operations. In this context, active participation in research projects in Cyprus and abroad is foreseen, with a focus on Biorbank as a national infrastructure.
It is worth noting that the Centre’s Biobank is based on a state-of-the-art biomedical research infrastructure and is an organised collection of medical records and information accompanied by biological material from volunteers such as DNA and other biological material. The archived data and samples are studied by specialized scientific teams at the Centre, with the aim of identifying specificities and DNA characteristics responsible for various genetic diseases, rare or common, in order to be used as tools to support precision medical research.
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