Project Z03

Project Z03 offers the platform to coordinate and standardize methodological approaches, quality control measures, documentation, data evaluation, communication of results and biobanking focussing on human studies. For this purpose, project Z03 will provide a comprehensive translational platform for ensuring valid and reliable collection, storage and analysis of experimental and clinical data from studies involving humans across different disease entities within the CRC/TR. The platform will consist of the following elements:

a) methodological consultancy service for all projects of the CRC/TR in terms of designing, performing and analysing different types of patient-oriented studies as well as collecting, analysing and storing platelet-specific biomarkers in humans;

b) a central platform for human BMA and data management of patient-oriented studies within the CRC/TR to create a central biobank as well as a central clinical database;

c) coordination of access to human samples and clinical data across the consortium to allow translation of results from CRC/TR projects in humans systems in the context of clinical cohorts and patient samples;

d) quality management across participating laboratories.

Participating institutions in Z03:

Prof. Dr. Tobias Geisler	Prof. Dr. Peter Heuschmann	Prof. Dr. Andreas Greinacher
Inere Medizin III Kardiologie und Kreislauferkrankungen	Institut für klinische Epidemiologie und Biometrie	Institut für Immunologie und Transfusionsmedizin
Universitätsklinikum Tübingen	Universität und Universitätsklinikum Würzburg	Universität und Universitätsklinikum Würzburg