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.
This edition also includes recordings of our two very recent webinars.
- Duncan Villanueva (Victorian Cancer Biobank) presented how they use OpenSpecimen to manage biospecimens from multiple sites. He also participated in 20 min interview session. (Click here)
- Srikanth Adiga (OpenSpecimen) presented “What’s new?” in v8.1 and some older features that are useful but not popular! (Click here)
OpenSpecimen Highlights
- v8.1 Released (release notes)
- New Blog: Reasons to choose OpenSpecimen as your biobanking LIMS
- New Case Study: Implementation at PRECISE Network (Africa)
Fresh of the Biobanking Press
- Living tumor bank for pediatric brain research at Dayton Children’s Hospital
- Better ‘Biobanking’ could pay off for organ recipients – University of Maryland
- The University of Guam biorepository receives 30,000-specimen coral collection
- Coriell Institute awarded $4.6 million from NHGRI to maintain biobank
- Biospecimen preservation using ultracold temperatures at Univ. of Michigan COVID-19 biorepository
- CF foundation launches lung transplant biorepository and patient registry
- Live cell bank at Weill Cornell Medicine for individualized IBD therapies
Biobank Job Alerts
- Technical Research Assistant – Partners Personalized Medicine Biobank
- Biobank Coordinator – Loyola University
- Biobank Assistant – Maine Medical Centre
- Research Associate I – Biobank and Pathology – Cedars Sinai
- Business Development Manager – University of Cyprus Biobank
Upcoming Events
- ISBER 2021 Virtual Symposium – 4th Oct
- The Business Matrix – Online Forum Session 2 – Victorian Cancer Biobank- 11th Oct
- 12th International Leaders in Biobanking Congress – 12th Oct