Aregional ambassador program was initiated by _ISBER in December 2018 to help the
organization better understand local/national issues and requirements, and to help expand …

ISBER's Mission: ISBER is a global biobanking organi-zation that creates opportunities for
networking, education, and innovations and harmonizes approaches to evolving challenges …

The European, Middle Eastern and African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking
(ESBB) held its second annual conference in Granada, Spain, in 2012. The Society was …

Two recent articles 1, 2 by Scott et al. and Basik et al. provided excellent overviews of the
current state of biobanking and future directions. As noted by Scott et al. referencing an …

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

Cancer (IARC) in 2013, as an opportunity for low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) to
work together in a coordinated manner to jointly address many of the challenges in …

Introduction: Clinical, biodiversity, and environmental biobanks share many data standards,
but there is a lack of harmonization on how data are defined and used among biobank …

The International Society of Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) Annual
Meeting (https://www. isber. org/page/2024Annual) is recognized as the premier event in the …

Background Biological sample and data transfer within and out of Africa is steeped in
controversy With the H3Africa project now aiming to establish biobanks in Africa, it is …

Over the last few decades, major discoveries have occurred in science and health
disciplines which have had great impact on almost all the fields of biological sciences …