News overview

Due to the summer holiday, there will be no committee meeting on 21 July 2025.

The TCBio Annual Report 2024 is available

In order to assess whether the donor’s consent covers the proposed research, it is important that all versions of the information letters and consent forms under which consent was obtained are submitted.

In some situations, fees apply for review of sub-biobank or release files. Effective 1 January 2025, there will be some changes in the fees.

For direct use of (fresh) residual human biological material from routine care in a scientific study, a simplified TCBio procedure is in place provided a set of criteria can be met.

Before use of human biological material, a researcher needs an approval from the Biobank Research Ethics Committee (Dutch: TCBio). As of 1st June, an updated version of the release protocol form is available here. As of 1st September 2022, the new form is mandatory for all requests for research use of human biological material.

From April 2021, the Biobank Research Ethics Committee (TCBio) will meet every 2 weeks on Monday, instead of monthly.

New meeting day and deadlines in 2021 As of 2021, the committee will meet once every 4 weeks on Monday (instead of Thursday).

Due to the new European privacy legislation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which has been in effect since May 2018, existing biobanks must also meet the statutory requirements for data processing when fulfilling their duty to inform new donors.