Name of bioresource/bank
Kuopio Brain Bank
Name of Principal Investigator
| Title | Professor |
| First name | Hilkka |
| Last name | Soininen |
Address of institution where award is held
| Institution | University of Eastern Finland |
| Street Address | Yliopistonranta 1 |
| City | Kuopio |
| Postcode | 70221 |
Country
Finland
Website
www.uef.f/neuro
Contact email (e.g. manager or coordinator)
Funding source
BrainNetEurope (PI Irina Alafuzoff)
University of Eastern Finland
Kuopio University Hospital
Q1 What conditions does your resource cover?
Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias Motor neurone diseases Neurodegenerative disease in general
Q2a What DNA collection does your resources hold?
1001-5000 donors
Q2b What cell lines does your resource hold?
None
Q2c What tissue (including post-mortem tissue) does your resource hold?
1001-5000 donors
Q3 Are human tissues/samples/DNA from
Post-mortem donors: brain
Q4 Are tissues/samples/DNA from
Healthy individuals/control donors Patients
Q5 Can samples be linked to clinical (phenotypic) information and if so, is this information:
In a specific study-associated dataset
Q6 In what form are samples supplied?
Primary Samples: Stabilised samples (frozen or fixed)
Q7 Are biomarkers/analytes/biological characteristics already measured and the information available for your samples?
In a few samples
Q8 What is the status of your tissue/sample/DNA collection?
Collection ongoing
Q9 What are the rules and procedures for access?
Access through collaboration with PI only Applicant needs to provide separate external ethics approval Resource has own ethics approval so usually no need for separate external ethics approval