Here is your monthly curated pick of biobanking news, jobs, and events from across the globe. We hope you will find this enriching and useful. Please do let us know your feedback on how we can improve this newsletter.
Interviews and webinars
We conducted very well-attended webinars with two of our favorite customers from across two continents. Here are the recordings:
- Washington University (Interview | Project Tracker Webinar)
- Find Diagnostics (Geneva) (Interview | Multi-site Collections Webinar)
OpenSpecimen Training Webinar
Register (click here) for the next webinar on “Creating Advanced Reports” in OpenSpecimen on April 21st. You can submit questions or reports that you would like us to cover in training.
For past webinars and interviews: click here.
Fresh of the Biobanking Press
- Building a living biobank for ovarian cancer
- NIH launches new COVID-19 neuro databank/biobank
- Yale IMPACT team compiles COVID-19 biorepository
- NIH will invest $1 billion to investigate ‘long COVID’
- University of Wisconsin–Madison established COVID19 convalescent biobank
- Norwich Research Park biorepository help fight against COVID-19
- RENACER a Spanish Brain Metastases Network launched
Recent Research Papers
- The Florida Pancreas Collaborative next-generation biobank
- Biobanking of COVID-19 biospecimens: Policies and guidelines
- Establishment of a pediatric COVID-19 biorepository: Unique considerations and opportunities
- Pediatric Lyme Disease Biobank for evaluating new diagnostic approaches
Biobank Job Alerts
- Biorepository Lab Technician – Indiana University, USA
- Sample Manager and Biobank Coordinator – Forbius, Canada
- Onsite Biobank Technician – Brooks Automation, USA
- Special Scientist, Biobank Technologist – University of Cyprus
- Deputy Head, Biobank – FIND, Geneva, Switzerland
- Research Associate I – LSU Health New Orleans, USA
- Biorepository Scientist – Analytical Biological Services, Wilmington, USA
- Biobank Assistant – Stanford University, USA
- Biobank Team Supervisor – Brooks Life Sciences Biobank, Indianapolis, USA
OpenSpecimen News
- New Customers:
- OpenSpecimen releases: eConsent module
- New Blogs:
- Ethical Challenges in COVID-19 biospecimen research
- Microbiome Biobanks – Challenges and opportunities
- Automation of biobanking activities
Feedback / Contribute
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