China Brain Bank of Zhejiang University School of Medicine is added to the new list of national service platforms for science and technology resources sharing. [zj.zjol.com.cn]

The Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance jointly released an optimized list of national service platforms for science and technology resource sharing. The China Brain Bank of Zhejiang University School of Medicine (ZUSM) was added to the list.

Brain bank is an institute collecting and storing brains donated anonymously by various neurological patients and normal people after death, as well as their medical records. The reserved brains are a precious resource for scientists to make brain science research.

The brain bank is an institute collecting and storing brains donated by various neurological patients and normal people after death, as well as their medical records anonymously. [zj.zjol.com.cn]

Established in 2012 and led by Duan Shumin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and director of the medicine department of Zhejiang University, the brain bank of ZUSM is a multidisciplinary sample platform integrating neuroscience, human anatomy, pathology and other related disciplines.

In the past seven years, the brain bank has collected and stored 179 fresh whole human brain tissue samples according to international standard workflow. In addition, the brain bank creates paper and electronic information files for each sample. The data is input by technicians and preserved in a digital management platform. All the information is saved anonymously by numbers, strictly guaranteeing the security of data and the privacy of donors.

ZUSM's brain bank has provided over 3,600 human brain tissue samples for 26 domestic scientific research projects, giving strong support to the research on Chinese brain tissue samples.

The brain bank of ZUSM has collected and stored 179 fresh whole human brain tissue samples in accordance with international standards. [zj.zjol.com.cn]