Platforms and services

El Biobank of the I3PT was authorized on December 12, 2020. Since then, work has been underway to integrate the previously existing collections at the institution and create new ones.

It offers its collections of biological samples and associated data to research staff, both internal and external, who request them to carry out their research. It also offers biological sample processing and storage services.

During the first year of activity, existing collections and samples of new donations have been integrated. The following table details the samples included in each collection during 2020 and 2021.

* Samples from the TXT collection are included from the tissue care archive of the Parc Taulí Hospital and are only registered in the Biobank once a researcher requests them. At that time it is checked that said samples have CI and comply with the legal and ethical requirements and are included in the Biobank database.

As a novelty in 2021, the Biobank has also offered sample processing and custody services, a service previously offered by the Institute's Scientific and Technical Unit.

The I3PT has signed a collaboration agreement with the Donation and Transplantation Institute (DTI) to establish stable links aimed at deploying activities that promote the Biobank's services, as well as identification as a Biobank of reference in the specialized conservation of samples and as a reference unit of DTI.

La Clinical Trials Support Unit (USAC) is created with the purpose of promoting and facilitating clinical research in the institution.

To be able to carry out this objective, the USAC is formed by a team of professionals in charge of the execution of clinical trials who coordinate to offer the necessary services to carry out all the activities from the moment of feasibility analysis of the study until its closure.

The purpose of the support offered by the USAC is to launch the study as soon as possible, guaranteeing the quality and reliability of the data obtained in the study and complying with the agreements with the promoters.

El 3D Lab is a technological laboratory within the Institute made up of a multidisciplinary team of medical staff and biomedical engineering staff. The Lab3D works closely with health professionals, companies, research centers and universities looking for solutions to the challenges of the health sector using 3D technology.

The services offered are:

• Virtual surgical planning
• Printing of anatomical surgical models
• Design of customized surgical guides
• Simulation models
• Tailor-made healthcare product development
• Training in medical 3D printing

El Digital Medical Imaging Laboratory It is part of Digital Medical Imaging Center (CIMD). It is a center specialized in the development of computer applications aimed at capturing, archiving and transmitting digital images, as well as all the information generated by diagnostic services.

It is integrated into the UDIAT Center Diagnòstic del Parc Taulí and is one of the common support services of the I3PT that allows the research staff to develop their research projects.

El Signal Laboratory has an interoperability platform with the capacity to manage raw data, as acquired in the healthcare process, to subsequently purify and transform them, with the aim of turning them into valuable information for research.

In order to obtain this data, the signal laboratory uses different medical devices, and innovative solutions developed in-house, which allow the research staff to have a large amount of demographic, clinical and physiological data, with the necessary quality for the development of research projects.

The Simulation Laboratory (SimPT) is a physical space intended for the training and education of health professionals at the different stages of their continuing education, which consists of two structures: a simulation classroom enabled for high fidelity and a procedure classroom for medium fidelity.

Between October 2021 and June 2022 they have been developed 32 activities: