Discover our biospecimen services.
EDBIO offers flexible solutions for your biospecimen needs, including customized collections, tailored procurement programs, and secure storage of biological materials.
Prospective Collection
Sample collection tailored to your specifications.
Custom Sourcing
Tell Us What You Need — We Find the Right Samples
Remnant Sample Access
Reliable storage of biological materials.
Biospecimen storage
Reliable storage of biological materials.
Discover flexible biospecimen services.
Every research project has different requirements. EDBIO provides flexible biospecimen services designed around your specific study needs — from prospective collections and custom sourcing to remnant sample programs and biostorage.
Through our international network of qualified laboratories, hospitals, collection centers, and biospecimen partners, we support research and diagnostic development projects with access to human biological materials across a broad range of indications and sample types.
Prospective Collections
When the required biospecimens are not available from existing inventory, EDBIO can coordinate prospective collections through our international network of partner hospitals, laboratories, and collection centers.
Collections can be designed around project-specific requirements, including:
• Disease indication and patient population
• Healthy donor criteria
• Sample type and collection tubes
• Required volume and number of donors
• Processing and storage conditions
• Clinical and demographic information
• Testing and analytical characterization
• Collection and shipping schedules
Depending on the project and collection site, we can support serum, plasma, whole blood, PBMCs, tissue, CSF, urine and other biological materials.
Before starting a collection, we evaluate feasibility, expected recruitment timelines and the required specifications together with our collection partners.
Custom Biospecimen Sourcing
Finding highly specific biospecimens can be challenging. EDBIO provides custom sourcing services for projects where standard inventory is not sufficient.
Instead of limiting your search to a fixed catalog, we evaluate your requirements across our network of biospecimen suppliers, laboratories and collection partners.
We can search based on criteria such as:
• Specific diseases and indications
• Biomarker or analyte status
• Positive and negative specimens
• Molecular or genetic characteristics
• Clinical and demographic criteria
• Specific sample matrices
• Required volumes and donor numbers
• Testing methods and characterization requirements
Our team coordinates the sourcing process and provides available options based on your project specifications.
Access to Residual Clinical Specimens
Through selected partner laboratories and collection sites, EDBIO can support projects requiring remnant biological specimens from routine clinical or diagnostic workflows.
Remnant sample programs can provide an efficient sourcing option for studies requiring larger numbers of specimens, specific analytes or defined patient populations.
Depending on availability and project requirements, specimens may include serum, plasma, whole blood, urine and other clinical sample types.
Available clinical information, testing results and sample characteristics depend on the respective collection program and source.
Biostorage
EDBIO supports the storage and management of human biospecimens for research and diagnostic development projects.
Depending on the material and project requirements, storage solutions can accommodate different temperature conditions and sample types.
Our biostorage support can include:
• Frozen sample storage
• Refrigerated storage
• Ambient storage
• Sample inventory management
• Shipment coordination
• Sample retrieval and distribution
• Project-specific storage solutions
Whether samples originate from an EDBIO sourcing project or an existing customer collection, we can evaluate an appropriate storage solution based on the material, volume and required storage conditions.