Biobanking as a Newsletter – Apr 2022
Here is your monthly curated pick of biobanking news, jobs, and events from across the globe. We hope you will find this enriching and valuable. Please do let us know …
Uncategorized
Would Biobanks be Efficacious to Revolutionize the Medicine Research?
Biobanks fulfill an essential role in advancing research and improving healthcare delivery by making high-quality, well-characterized, and related samples and data readily available for analysis. Therefore, it is becoming increasingly …
The WACIC Biobank: Collaboration is key in the fight against covid19
Overseen by a team of experts led by Dr. Dominic Mallon, a Clinical Immunologist at PathWest and Fiona Stanley Hospital, the WACIC Biobank was established with an understanding that immunity …
GDPR Article 89 and Appropriate Safeguards: Guidelines for biobanks for collection, use, and reuse of samples and personal data
Introduction Genetic research requires access to large quantities of biological samples and data. The biobanks and databanks collect these samples and data directly from a research participant. This data is …
UiT Biobank, Norway Receives Funding to Solve Challenges in Biospecimen Storage and Research
Through the Biobank Norge consortium, the core facility for biobank has received an allocation of almost 20 million from the Research Council. The biobank stores human biological material that has been collected …
NCI Launches Molecular Characterization Initiative for Pediatric Tumors
The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched the Molecular Characterization Initiative for pediatric tumors. This program offers tumor molecular characterization, also called biomarker testing, to …
CSHL and Northwell Health Scientists Create a Biobank of 87 Triple-negative Breast Cancer Organoids
It’s the cancer version of “mini-me.” Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor David Spector, among others, has developed organoids, which are miniature, three-dimensional copies of cancers. Organoids can be derived …
Monash Launches Flagship Biological Storage Facility: Biobanking Victoria
Monash University has officially launched Australia’s first industry-focused storage facility for biological material to support medical research and commercialization opportunities. Biobanking Victoria is a state-of-the-art facility that provides a valuable …
COMBINEDBrain Biorepository: A comprehensive approach to speed rare diseases research
COMBINEDBrain puts advocacy groups in the driver’s seat in the race to cure rare neurodevelopmental diseases. Patient advocacy foundations representing more than thirty rare genetic neurodevelopmental disorders join forces as …
Exploring the Costs and Setup Required to Build Biobank
The storage of biomaterials from DNA and RNA to hair and fingernails has numerous benefits. The most obvious is that patients do not have to repeatedly donate samples, which can …