… significant challenges for post-genomic biobank governance when attempting to … biobanking
process. With the transformation of biobanks into large-scale infrastructures of post-genomic …

… and societal interests in biobank research, 2) … biobank research should provide. These
foundational insights are applied to an emerging normative model beneath biobank governance …

… through biobanks. I will argue that biobanks are not only an object or topic of governance, …
be seen as something through which the governance of life operates. Their representations …

… research and paved the way to a “post-genomic” era. In this context, many traditional
small-refrigerator based biobanks have been transformed into sophisticated storage centers, …

… We suggest that biobank governance consists of a multiplicity of ordering processes that
overlap to a significant degree but nevertheless operate in different domains. In fact, much can …

… what such governance might look like. In … biobank governance and illustrate the enactment
of these principles in a proposed governance model for a particular population-scale biobank…

… 2 Cambon-Thomsen A: The social and ethical issues of post-genomic human biobanks.
Nat Rev Genet 2004;5:866–873. 3 Hagen HE, Carlstedt-Duke J: Building global networks for …

… regulating the functions of biobanks is lagging behind biobank development. Second, … the
management: Unclear lines of accountability and lack of consistently strong data management. …

… We have shown that biobank governance relies on a variety … room for improving biobank
governance especially in making … needed to future-proof biobank governance, to streamline the …

… legislative structures and governance frameworks to protect … establishment and proper running
of biobanks in low- and middle… , equitable and feasible biobank governance framework to …