Sample request

Application procedure and documents

To support your project or to monitor your study, we require the following documents to be completed and signed by you:

Project with tissue from the tumor and normal tissue bank:
Project or study application

Or alternatively for the processing of tissue from your institution:

Project without tissue from the tumor and normal tissue bank:
Service application

• When submitting a TNTB project application, please attach a copy of the supporting ethics vote.
• If FFPE samples younger than 3 years are to be used for a research project explicitly selected by the project leader, the project leader is obliged to check whether the relevant patients have consented to the use of their sample material for research (EWEs must be filed in ORBIS) and to note this in the sample list attached to the project.

Current tissue material (FFPE material younger than 3 years) from patients who have not consented to the use of their material for research may not be used.

General information
All applications should include the following information

• short project description (approx. half a DIN A4 page)

• Details of the specific tissue request (type and number)

• Details of cooperation partners

• Information on the project-related ethics vote

• Information on project financing / invoice address

Please send us all signed documents to:

Sample collection:

Location: Institute of Pathology
TNTB/ Study Center (2. OG; Room 302)
Schubertstraße 15
01307 Dresden

Opening hours: Monday - Thursday: 08:00 am to 11:00 am
13:00 h to 15:00 h Friday:08:00 to 12:00

Application procedure and documents for liquid biosamples

For the support of your project or the monitoring of your study we need one of the following documents completely filled out and signed by you:

Sample request forms:

Liquid biospecimen request form

Covid request form

Information on requirements & procedure
All requests should contain the following information

• Details of the sample request (clinical entity, sample type and number)

• Brief project description (approx. half a DIN A4 page)

• Information on cooperation partners

• Information on the project-related ethics vote

• Project funding

Please send all documents to

Samples will then be collected/sent by arrangement.

Für die Unterstützung von Forschungsprojekten mit FFPE-Material darf die TNTB/BBD, unter Erfüllung bestimmter Voraussetzungen, auf das Blockarchiv des Instituts für Pathologie des Universitätsklinikums Carl Gustav Carus Dresden zurückgreifen. Zu den Voraussetzungen zählen:

• Die Materialentnahme liegt mehr als 3 Jahre zurück, sodass eine eventuelle weitere diagnostische Anforderung für den Materialspendenden Patient*innen, unwahrscheinlich ist. (entsprechend dem Ethikvotum EK59032007)
• Das erwogene Forschungsprojekt hat bereits die Zustimmung seitens des „Steering Committee UCC“ erhalten.
• Das Archiv am UKD umfasst FFPE-Material gesammelt seit 2011

Sammlungsgröße: ________ (Stand 01/2023)

• Aus einem externen Archiv können zudem, mit einer Sonderanforderung, weitere Materialien abgefragt werden. Dieses umfasst FFPE-Material gesammelt von 2004 – 2010.

Sammlungsgröße: _______ (Stand 01/2023)