The Istituto Superiore di Sanità has announced the signing of the agreement for the construction of 'Viva', a biobank that will collect, store and make available for research purposes human, animal and environmental biological samples.
Viva will be one of the largest Italian research biobanks: located in the area of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, it will develop on about 700 square meters and can contain up to 5 million samples. It will be carried out in collaboration with the Siad group, which has developed the entire project worth 3.5 million euros for the Institute. It will be ready in the first half of 2024.
The structure will be divided into three areas: one for samples collected according to the highest quality standards; one for historical samples, which could be useful for future research; the third is intended to host samples from other structures facing critical situations for transitional periods.
"A biobank of this level that guarantees perfect conservation of biological samples and related data, is the fundamental prerequisite for the quality and reliability of the resulting research", says the president of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Silvio Brusaferro.