# Biobanks in Finland

Finland's Biobank Act was instated in 2013, and the current legislation requires official registration of all biobanks. Currently there are ten registered biobanks in Finland, eight of which are members of the Finnish Biobank Cooperative [FINBB](https://finbb.fi/en/).

FINBB's mission is to make Finnish health and biomedical research more competitive by providing researchers centralized access to the collections and services of the Finnish biobanks and their background organizations.

### **FINBB Member Biobanks**

* Six regional hospital biobanks are owned by the respective wellbeing services counties and universities:
  * [Auria Biobank](https://www.auria.fi/biopankki/en/)
  * [Northern Finland Biobank Borealis](https://oys.fi/en/front-page/for-researchers/biobank-borealis-of-northern-finland/)
  * [Central Finland Biobank](https://www.sairaalanova.fi/en-US)
  * [Biobank of Eastern Finland](https://ita-suomenbiopankki.fi/en/)
  * [Helsinki Biobank](https://www.helsinginbiopankki.fi/fi/etusivu)
  * [Finnish Clinical Biobank Tampere](https://www.pirha.fi/ammattilaiselle/tampereen-biopankki)
* Two cohort biobanks, one local and one nation-wide:
  * [Arctic Biobank at University of Oulu](https://www.oulu.fi/en/university/faculties-and-units/faculty-medicine/northern-finland-birth-cohorts-and-arctic-biobank/arctic-biobank)
  * [THL Biobank](https://thl.fi/en/research-and-development/thl-biobank)

Additionally, the [Blood Service Biobank](https://www.veripalvelu.fi/verenluovutus/biopankkitoiminta) and [FHRB Biobank](https://www.hematologinenbiopankki.fi) belong to the FINBB network.

Finnish biobanks belong to the European Biobank Infrastructure Network [BBMRI-ERIC](https://www.bbmri-eric.eu/). Finnish Biobanks participate actively in implementation of the [BBMRI-ERIC](https://www.bbmri-eric.eu/) Work Program with specific emphasis on IT, Quality, and Ethical and Legal Issues. FINBB is actively promoting the centralized access tool [Fingenious](https://site.fingenious.fi/en/) on a national level.

Take a look at the sections [Minimum phenotype data](/finngen-data-specifics/red-library-data-individual-level-data/what-phenotype-files-are-available-in-sandbox-1/minimum-and-minimum-longitudinal-data.md), [Extracting minimum phenotype data per biobank ](/finngen-data-specifics/red-library-data-individual-level-data/what-phenotype-files-are-available-in-sandbox-1/minumum-extended-phenotype-data/extraction-of-finngen-minimum-data-set-information-per-biobank.md)and [DNA isolation protocols per biobank](/finngen-data-specifics/red-library-data-individual-level-data/what-phenotype-files-are-available-in-sandbox-1/minumum-extended-phenotype-data/dna-isolation-protocols-per-biobank.md) for more information about biobank data within FinnGen.


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