The University College Dublin – St Vincent’s University Hospital Kidney Biobank’s mission is to facilitate cutting edge translational research in kidney diseases. The biobank was established in 2024 on the return on Dr Malone to Dublin and to UCD-SVUH and forms the bedrock of the Kidney Translational Research Study (KTRS). One of the main motivations for establishing this comprehensive biorepository was to provide infrastructure for translational research including biomarker discovery, novel treatment target discovery, outcomes research, molecular genomics and multiomics. We also aim to establish our biobank to run similarly to other established large kidney biobanks such as those at Washington University and Northwestern University. The Biobank will link clinical data from patients with diseases affecting the kidney with a variety of biospecimens (serum, urine, tissue, plasma, WBC pellet, DNA, RNA and biopsy tissue). We encourage collaboration with any investigator interested in using our resources, specimens or data. We will implement the latest technologies in genomics, patient and specimen-based research and work with investigators at the frontiers of kidney research. The Biobank will seek to build resources for Irish, European and other internationally funded consortia and clinical trials. It will also offer a powerful approach to investigating kidney diseases through its comprehensive collection of biological samples linked to complete prospectively collected clinical outcomes data. These data are stored securely in deidentified electronic databases. Our vision is to maintain and grow a state-of-the-art kidney biobank with linked clinical outcomes data for every patient (with consent) managed by the UCD/SVUH nephrology department. We see this type of resource as invaluable for the for advancement of our understanding of kidney diseases such as rejection and welcome collaboration with other investigators.
Director: Andrew Malone
email: andrew.malone@ucd.ie