The colorectal cancer cohort (CRC-Cohort) is developed within the EU-funded project ADOPT BBMRI-ERIC (H2020) as a use case for piloting access to European biobanks.

The CRC-Cohort is developed by BBMRI-ERIC, its National Nodes and BBMRI-ERIC partner biobanks, and it will become a permanent asset of the BBMRI-ERIC infrastructure after the end of the ADOPT project. The CRC-Cohort collection is a joint long-term European endeavor, which enables existing, well-established biobanks to connect with BBMRI-ERIC and obtain increased recognition and visibility along with new users and data.

Currently, the CRC-Cohort numbers over 10,000 datasets from across Europe.

The CRC-Cohort is expected to enable high-quality research and innovation to improve colorectal cancer treatment. The cohort should enable a large spectrum of different types of research and is therefore not restricted to any specific research question. The procedures and IT tools developed within the CRC-Cohort are expected to be reusable for similar future efforts on different disease entities implemented using BBMRI-ERIC as an infrastructure.

• Download our Handbook for biobanks to meet users’ needs for
  biomarker discovery, development and validation here.
• View the Access Policy for the CRC-Cohort here.
• View all the public ADOPT BBMRI-ERIC deliverables here.
• Find the Colorectal Cancer Cohort in the BBMRI-ERIC Directory here. Use of the CRC-Cohort can be requested by selecting it in the Directory and proceeding to Negotiator to request access.