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KFSHRC Biobank Center
Stores diverse clinical biospecimens with linked disease and patient data for genomic and precision-medicine research.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- KFSHRC patients and national referral cohorts
- Project type
- Institutional clinical biobank and precision-medicine infrastructure
- Research domain
- Cancer, cardiovascular, neurological, aging, diabetes and rare disease
- Years
- 2025–
- Lifecycle status
- active
- Status basis
- KFSHRC announced the modernized center in January 2025 as an operational precision-medicine resource.
- Status evidence date
- 2025-01-01
- Scale
- Designed storage capacity for 10 million biospecimens, including tissue, liquid biopsy and blood derivatives; current holdings are not disclosed.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSHRC)
- Partner organizations
- Not stated
- Organism / population
- KFSHRC patients and Saudi clinical cohorts
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- tissue
- liquid biopsy
- blood derivatives
- linked clinical data
- genomics-ready biospecimens
Data access
Controlled institutional biobank access
Identifiers
No public accession or identifier is listed for this record.
04 / Evidence and provenance
Why the record is included.
Inclusion basis
Major institutional biobanking infrastructure explicitly designed for multi-disease genomic and precision-medicine programs.
Editorial note
Ten million is design capacity, not current holdings. Distinct from KAIMRC Saudi Biobank and PHA National Biobank.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
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