Background. The Center for Transfusion Medicine, Cell Therapy and
Cryobiology, Milan, Northern Italy, is the headquarter of the POLI-MI
biobank. It co-ordinates the biobank activities of the Fondazione Ca’
Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico of Milan. Such activities require
specific safeguarding of donors’ rights and protection of sensitive and
genetic data. The Fondazione Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore
Policlinico has set up a project on informed consent with the aim of
developing awareness and understanding of this issue. Within this
project, it has been decided to evaluate how consent for biobanking
material is expressed.