Welcome to CRBIP

The Biological Resource Center of Institut Pasteur. The CRBIP is a transversal biobank infrastructure that includes microbial and human specimen collections of Institut Pasteur. The CRBIP receives, processes, maintains, characterizes and supplies biological resources globally, in compliance with health and environmental safety standards and under applicable laws and regulations.

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A unique transdisciplinary biobank

The CRBIP has a unique position at national and international level, based on the combination of:

  • one of the oldest and most diverse collections of microorganisms in the world, the CIP,
  • the world reference collection for cyanobacteria, the PCC,
  • the only ADI collection in France, the CNCM,
  • bio-resources of human origin, at CHIP, with the possibility of prospective and project- specific collections.

Biological resources

The CRBIP biological resources are integrated, processed, characterized, preserved and distributed in compliance with health and environmental biosafety and biosecurity standards and under applicable laws and regulations. Explore our large and diverse curated collections of microbial strains and human biological materials.

  • Bacteria
  • Cyanobacteria
  • Fungi
  • Human samples
  • Viruses
  • Other
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More than 15000 quality controled strains of bacteria.

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Discover our latest news

  • CRBIP set to become a national bacteriophage biobank
  • Public release of 463 assembled genomes from CIP bacterial strains
  • New article about the concept of “Target Specimen Profiles”
  • CIP’s temporary closure for inventory
  • MALDIBANK kick-off
  • CRBIP goes to Montreal
  • First ECDC CRAb survey isolates at CRBIP
  • New biobanking MOOC
  • Meriem Paris, new Head of CIP
  • Mariana Ferrari, new Head of CRBIP PMO
  • ECDC biobank
  • European Project COMFORT
  • European Liquid Biopsy Society

The Priority Research Programs and Equipment initiative on biotherapies – PEPR Biothérapies – recently launched its first call for proposals to support innovative initiatives in the field of biotherapies. One of the six selected projects was "PARADIGM", led by the Paris Public Hospital Network (AP-HP), in partnership with the Institut Pasteur and the CEA. The aim of the project is to establish a national biobank of bacteriophages, which will serve as a key resource to produce effective treatments for resistant infections. This biobank, focused on three priority multidrug-resistant pathogens: Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and

Acinetobacter baumannii, will be a key part of the Phagocenter, a new operational center directly linked to clinical requirements.

Within the PARADIGM project, the Collection of Institut Pasteur (CIP) will be responsible for compiling and managing this national biobank for bacteriophages and host bacterial strains.

For more information, visit the PEPR Biotherapies program website
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Our services

We offer wet lab services for different types of biological resources, both microbial and human-origin. We also offer bioinformatics services for microbial resources.

Deposit & storage

The CRBIP accepts deposits of strains, and offers storage of your valuable or irreplaceable biological materials.

Deposit and Sorage

Processing

Processing of microbial or human specimens, preparation of molecular or cellular derivatives.

Processing

Characterization

Authentication, quantification, phenotypic characterization, genomic taxonomy services

Characterization

Quality Assurance

Strict Quality Assurance is a central part of our strategy. Our Quality Management System covers all biobanking processes and aims at fitness-for-purpose of the biological resources we are making available.

CRBIP Certificate ISO 9001
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Any questions ? Please contact us

for any question to which you do not find the answer in the FAQ, don't hesitate to contact us, crbip-pmo@pasteur.fr

Access to our FAQ
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