The Institute of Pathology of the Technical University of Munich is associated with the Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Munich, a 1,100-bed hospital treating 40,000 in-house patients and 170,000 out-patients yearly. The Institute of Pathology has a biobank core-facility, hosting about 950,000 formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) and more than 25,000 cryo-conserved tissue samples and associated medical data. TUM provides DIN EN ESO/IEC 17020 certified molecular analyses for research purposes and diagnostics.