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For the clinicians who have been involved in clinical and translational research the management of patient’s information, together with sample collection, sample processing and storage has been frequently a nightmare. Lack of time for adequately observing patients, combined with shortage of logistic support for research associated activities during the medical appointment, were clearly a stressful combination. On top of that, the absence of trained laboratorial staff to manage samples, the lack of appropropriate and safe softwares for keeping the clinical information and the use of laboratorial freezers shared by heterogenous users created the adequate conditions for tragical loss of information or of biological material. Finally, the traditional organization of a research project, including the classic ethical approval just for a predefined research question, without previweing its use for future aditional investigations, leads usually to a single use of the clinical and biological information in one or two papers and then all the logistic investment fades away and samples and clinical information are left underused. On the other hand, many clinical and translational researchers have faced the problem of strugling to organize and implement a research project and when finally everything was ready to start writing the paper, ‘magically’ other research groups in other parts of the world published more or less the results that had just been locally obtained. Are they individually better researchers? Probably not. They had the logistic support of biobanks and could apply the idea immediately, using samples and clinical information already available, saving time and money. Biobanks were developed exactly to facilitate reasearch, to improve the adequate and ethical use of human biological and clinical information and to save time and money in research activities. Biobanks are complex structures that receive, store and manage the utilization of a wide range of biological samples donated voluntarily and its correspondent clinical information in order to foster biomedical research.

Biobanco-IMM, Centro Académico de Medicina de Lisboa: Um Caso de Estudo