H3Africa Biorepository Program: Supporting genomics research on African populations by sharing high-quality biospecimens

A Abimiku, ES Mayne, M Joloba… - Biopreservation and …, 2017 - liebertpub.com
… led by African scientists on genomic research on diseases of importance to the … genome
research applications was again announced in 2016, expanding the areas of genomic research

[HTML][HTML] Biobanking in East and Central Africa: A case of the Integrated Biorepository of H3Africa Uganda

G Nsubuga, DP Kateete, SM Aloyo, LN Kigingi… - Open Research …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Centralised and standardised biorepository operations have been performed by IBRH3AU
for the H3Africa Consortium and other researchers. … from various H3Africa research sites from …

Genetic and genomic researchers' perspectives on biological sample sharing in collaborative research in Uganda: a qualitative study

D Kaawa-Mafigiri, D Ekusai Sebatta… - … Empirical Research …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
… in sub-Saharan Africa that informed this study including 1) … including repositories and
centralized laboratory systems and … in the success of biobank research. Our participants did not …

Building genomic capacity for precision health in Africa

A Olono, V Mitesser, A Happi, C Happi - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
… ) to research and development (R&D), by 2014 sub-Saharan … Establishing diverse, centralized
biobanks and making these … has successfully established three biobank repositories in …

Human OMICs and computational biology research in Africa: current challenges and prospects

Y Hamdi, L Zass, H Othman, F Radouani… - OMICS: A Journal of …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
… disparities between North and Sub-Saharan Africa at different … H3Africa biorepositories are
housed in the European Genome… a centralized database for African OMICs data and research

“It is bad because it limits capacity building here back at home” Genetic and genomic researchers' perspectives on biological sample sharing in collaborative research

D Kaawa-Mafigiri, D Ekusai-Sebatta, I Munabi… - medRxiv, 2022 - medrxiv.org
… The H3Africa Consortium has a biorepository program that is … in sub-Saharan Africa that
informed this study including 1) … including repositories and centralized laboratory systems and …

Software Tools for Biobanking in LMICs

D Anderson, H Bendou, B Kipperer, K Zatloukal… - Biobanks in Low-and …, 2022 - Springer
… by the needs of the biobank clients and researchers, as well as available financial resources
[20]. However, to find a LIMS that incorporates all possible requirements of a biobank is a …

H3Africa partnerships to empower clinical research sites to generate high-quality biological samples

E Onyemata, M Owolabi, B Ovbiagele… - African Journal of …, 2020 - journals.co.za
… The NIH required biorepositories to complete a feasibility … assigned H3Africa research
projects to a biorepository and … development programmes in sub-Saharan Africa that incorporate …

[PDF][PDF] Ethics Involving Research with Biological Tissue Samples in Uganda

R Wismayer - researchgate.net
Genetic studies – In Sub-Saharan Africa there has been an exponential increase in biobanking
and genomic research … In Uganda, there is no centralized biobank, so the responsibility …

Development, evaluation, and implementation of a pan-African cancer research network: men of African descent and carcinoma of the prostate

C Andrews, B Fortier, A Hayward… - Journal of global …, 2018 - ascopubs.org
… (CaP) is the leading cancer among men in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). A … were generated
using the UK Biobank Axiom Array. … ) and centralized institutional review boards approve study