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National Dasman Diabetes Biobank
Stores and processes blood, body fluids, tissue and derived nucleic acids to support research on the genetic components and complications of diabetes.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- Kuwait; DDI research projects and collaborators
- Project type
- Biobank
- Research domain
- Diabetes, obesity and metabolic disease
- Years
- Not stated
- Lifecycle status
- active
- Status basis
- The current DDI facility page describes ongoing specimen collection, processing, storage and services for short- and long-term studies.
- Status evidence date
- 2026-08-15
- Scale
- Current public page does not state participant, sample or collection totals.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- Dasman Diabetes Institute
- Partner organizations
- Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences
- Organism / population
- Human biospecimens from DDI research cohorts
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- biospecimens
- DNA
- clinical research samples
Data access
Collaborative/institutional access; public application route not stated
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Current national biobank with a documented genomic-research purpose.
Editorial note
A platform supporting multiple cohorts; avoid counting stored samples as a single study cohort.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
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