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[Annual report] The 2022 Annual Report on the National Biobank of Korea

A reliable partner for Korea’s healthcare R&D

NATIONAL BIOBANK OF
KOREA
Korea Biobank Project (KBP) has been promoted by the National Biobank of Korea (NBK) of the National
Institute of Health of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency since 2008. It aims to collect
and manage human bioresources that would be highly utilized for future healthcare R&D, distribute the
bioresources to researchers in Korea, and resultantly contribute to facilitating healthcare research
and developing relevant industries.
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17 years after the launch of the Korea Biobank Project,
a new step forward to the next-generation biobank!

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Central Bank Status at a Glance

NATIONAL BIOBANK OF KOREA

Current Status of National Biobank of Korea

Status

  • Human biospecimens

    Participation by
    1.23million donors
    20.87million vials of bioresources collected
    • NBK
      446,303donors
      10.81million vials
    • Regional biobanks
      767,916donors
      10.05million vials

  • Public information

    Linked to epidemiological data
    0.62million donors
    • Population-based
      0.3million donors
    • Disease-based
      0.32million donors
  • Research project
    5,446projects

    NBK 1,600 projects
    Regional biobanks 3,846 projects

  • Human biospecimens
    1.55million vials

    682,246 vials of DNA distributed,
    Accounting for 43% of the total

  • Datasets of cohort data
    2,990datasets

    1,708 datasets of epidemiological data
    1,282 datasets of genetic data

  • Distributed to schools/hospitals
    86% distribution

    6% to government institutions , 5% to industry
    3% to other research instituions

  • SCIE paper (2,025 articles)
    91%

  • SCIE Impact Factor

    • 59 articles

      3%

      Less than1

    • 609 articles

      33%

      1 to less than 3

    • 615 articles

      33%

      3 to less than 5

    • 412 articles

      22%

      5 to less than 10

    • 154 articles

      8%

      10 or more

  • Patent registrations (206cases)
    66%
  • NBK
    927 articles
  • KBN biobanks
    1,098 articles
  • Published※
    2,025 articles
  • NBK
    45 cases
  • KBN biobanks
    161 cases
  • Patent registrations & applications ※
    206 cases

※ The numbers given for the current status of human bioresources collection, distribution and utilization represent cumulative values as of 2022

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