Tokai University Hospital Biobank is an organization that stores biological samples such as blood and tissues donated with your consent, along with the associated information, and distributes and sells them to medical researchers. It also conducts collaborative research with domestic and international research institutions to elucidate the causes of diseases and develop new treatments and drugs.

Our university is already preserving samples from allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant cases via the bone marrow bank under a project commissioned by the Japanese Society of Hematopoietic and Immuno-Cell Transplantation, and providing them to researchers. Many important discoveries leading to improvements in transplant medicine have been made using samples preserved through this project.

Taking this as a good example, we are working hard to prepare for the system to be operational from 2027, so that the biological samples and information provided will be utilized as valuable medical resources that will lead to future medical treatments.