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Nourah's Tissue Biobank
Collects and stores tissue and linked anonymized medical information for genomics, rare-disease and precision-medicine research.
01 / Project overview
What the record establishes.
- Geographic scope
- Princess Nourah University and King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital patients
- Project type
- Institutional tissue biobank
- Research domain
- Genomics, rare disease and precision medicine
- Years
- Not stated
- Lifecycle status
- active
- Status basis
- An official PNU page describes the operating biobank and its research remit; launch date and current holdings are not disclosed there.
- Status evidence date
- 2026-08-15
- Scale
- Current holdings are not stated on the primary institutional page.
02 / Organizations and population
Who and what the project connects.
- Lead organizations
- Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University · King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital
- Partner organizations
- Not stated
- Organism / population
- Patients and research participants associated with PNU and KAAUH
03 / Data and access
What exists and how it can be reached.
Data types
- tissue biospecimens
- anonymized clinical data
- genomics-ready samples
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
Named operating institutional biobank with an explicit genomics and rare-disease remit.
Editorial note
Institutional rather than national. Secondary claims about sample counts were not used because a primary current holdings statement was not located.
Sources
- primary record source Verified 2026-08-15
- additional record source Verified 2026-08-15
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