Human tissue is the 21st century “gold standard” for the develop- ment of new drugs, new biotechnologies and new in vitro diag- nostics.

The pharmaceutical, diagnostics and biotech industries do not have significant biobanks of their own, so they have traditionally relied on collaborations with institutions to gain access to human tissue, for example.

With more than one million tissue blocks, provitro’s tissue bank is one of the largest FFPE tissue banks and probably the largest privately owned FFPE tissue bank in the world.

Samples are collected from epidemiologically uniform age groups, representing the patient population of Europe’s largest university pathology unit over a period of more than 20 years.