National Heart Failure Biobank (NHFB)

Recently, the Ministry of Science & Technology has launched the National Heart Failure Biobank (NHFB).

It is India’s first National Heart Failure Biobank (NHFB).
It would collect blood, biopsies, and clinical data as a guide to future therapies.
- The biosamples include the blood, serum, tissue samples obtained during open-heart surgery and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and genomic DNA collected from heart failure patients.
Source: The Print

It was inaugurated at the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST).
The biobank activity is supervised by a Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) with a member from ICMR.

It would greatly help in guiding future therapies and technologies and would benefit the heart failure patients significantly.
It will provide insights into heart diseases and heart failure among Indian children and adults, which are very different from that seen in the West.
It would prove very helpful in understanding molecular pathways and would improve the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of Heart Failure.
It will open a new era in research in Heart Failure in India and will change the persona of diagnosis and treatment of heart failure patients.
Through the NHFB, researchers can get access to well-annotated biological specimens linked to clinical data while maintaining appropriate standards of quality and security.
It will facilitate research both in India and abroad, helping clinicians and scientists to work together to understand and find solutions to heart failure-related morbidity and mortality.

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