QUOD biobank facilitates research by providing linked samples and clinical data for research projects from academia, healthcare services and industry, worldwide
University of Oxford
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📊 QUOD Biobank: Our Bioresource in Numbers! QUOD Biobank has reached an incredible 9,552 organ donors, with thousands of blood, urine, and tissue samples available to support vital research into organ donation and transplantation. #OrganDonation #Research #Biobanking #NHSBT
#NACFC26 @nucDIABETES, member of the QUOD Biobank Executive Team and Chair of the QUOD Steering Committee, will be chairing:
“One Organ, Two Jobs: Understanding the Role of the Endocrine & Exocrine Pancreas in CF”
📅 Saturday 10 October 2026
🕙 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM EDT
🌍💗 European Donation Day 2026 | Sharing Lives
This European Donation Day, QUOD Biobank joins colleagues across Europe in recognising the extraordinary impact of organ, tissue, and cell donation.
For QUOD Biobank, donation also creates an important legacy through research.
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❤️ World Heart Day 2026 | Supporting research for healthier hearts
QUOD Biobank is proud to help researchers investigate important questions about heart health, heart disease, and transplantation.
Details on how to access our samples: quod.org.uk/for-researchers/
#WorldHeartDay
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UK Organ Donation Week | 21–27 September 2026
Meet the QUOD Biobank team, helping ensure the generosity of organ donors and their families continues to make a difference through research.
Behind every precious sample is a dedicated team making transplant research possible.
🔬 Making research accessible to everyone
QUOD Biobank has collaborated with @UKODTRN to deliver plain language summaries of some of the projects supported by our bioresource.
🔗 quod.org.uk/plain-language-s…
#PlainLanguageSummaries #OrganDonation #Transplantation
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📢Announcing the first NURTuRE-QUOD Biobank Industry Workshop to explore how collaboration can help shape the future of kidney and transplantation research.
📅 22 September 2026
⏲️ 3pm BST
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This #WorldOrganDonationDay, we say thank you.
Behind every sample is a donor, a family, and a team.
🙏 Thank you for making research possible.
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QUOD Biobank retweeted
Vani, a 16-year-old student from London, shares how a week at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences reshaped her understanding of medicine, research and the people at the heart of healthcare.
Read more ➡️ nds.ox.ac.uk/news/blog/who-s…
ALT NDS logo, Picture of Vani with her fellow work experience students, Text that reads: Reflections from a week in the world of surgical sciences, www.nds.ox.ac.uk
It is always fantastic to see research published that used QUOD samples.
Read our Research Highlight here: quod.org.uk/2026/07/03/resea…
Our July stats are in!
A heartfelt thank you to our donors and their families for their incredible generosity, enabling our bioresource continue to grow and support vital research that will make a difference for patients now and in the future.
Read our latest Spotlight Interview on a QUOD Colleague interview, featuring Sue Madden, one of QUOD Biobank's experienced statisticians.
📖 Read the full interview here: quod.org.uk/2026/07/03/spotl…
📢 Issue 2 of the QUOD Biobank newsletter is out now!
👉 Catch up with our latest news here: medsci.msgfocus.com/q/119zSo…
📢 World’s first successful transplantation of a perfused human pancreas!
🎉 Congratulations to all involved at @OUHospitals and @UniofOxford!
👉 Full details: ouh.nhs.uk/news/articles/244…
Congratulations to Prof Peter Friend and Prof Constantin Coussios, co-founders of @organ_ox, which was named the winner of the @UniofOxford’s Vice-Chancellor’s Commercialisation and Entrepreneurship Award.
nds.ox.ac.uk/news/double-suc…
📢 Don't miss @IEMichelakis and @Sarahfawwaz today at #ERA26.
Head over to Focussed Oral Room 11 to hear some of the latest research supported by QUOD Biobank.
📢 New publication from a project that used QUOD Biobank samples:
👉 Read the article here: frontierspartnerships.org/jo…
If you're attending #ERA26 this week, don't miss some of the latest kidney transplantation research supported by QUOD Biobank.
@IEMichelakis and @Sarahfawwaz will present findings from their research, which used QUOD samples, on Thursday 4 June.
This #IND2026, QUOD Biobank thanks all the Specialist Nurses in Organ Donation (SNODs) who work with us across the UK.
Our SNODs take the first step towards sample collection for our biobank to support vital research into organ donation and chronic disease.
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A huge well done to QUOD Biobank researcher, Rebecca Vaughan, who joined Kidney Research UK's #TeamKidney for their March March event to raise funds for kidney research.
Read her story here: kidneyresearchuk.org/2026/04…
