Collects and store biological samples and information from patients throughout Japan. Also provides information to various research projects in compliance with relevant regulations in Japan.

BioBank Japan (BBJ) was established at the Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo in 2003 as a national project to realize personalized medicine based on individual genetic information. The BBJ consists of the Office of BioBank Japan, the Sample Bank (DNA, Serum), as well as Genome/Clinical Information Database, and the BBJ Management Committee, which oversees the BBJ’s whole operation.