Background Biorepositories archive and distribute well-characterized biospecimens for
research to support the development of medical diagnostics and therapeutics. Knowledge of …

Apan-African consortium, Human Health and Her-edity in Africa (H3Africa), was initiated in
2010 to build research programs and infrastructure in genomic medicine on the African …

Biobanks are organized collections of biospecimens and associated data from large number
of individuals for the purpose of health research. The number of biobanks has expanded in …

The establishment of Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa. www. h3africa. org)
has catalyzed collaborative research across national boundaries, building on existing …

Background: Genetic diversity is abundant on the African continent. However, genomic
research has been hampered by a lack of high quality and extensively annotated …

Biorepositories in Africa need significant infrastructural support to meet International Society
for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) Best Practices to support population …

The high burden of infectious diseases and the growing problem of noncommunicable and
metabolic disease syndromes in South Africa (SA) forces a more focused research approach …

Biobanking and its associated policies and procedures for managing biological specimen
collections are critical to the success of a variety of research endeavors. Several …

Past practices of informal sample collections and spreadsheets for data and sample
management fall short of best-practice models for biobanking, and are neither cost effective …

Biobanking is a rapidly expanding, yet frag-ile, enterprise, which has become crucial for the
advancement of biomedical research. To encourage best practices in establishment …