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 your feedback on how we can improve this newsletter.
OSCON22 Highlights
After the three years gap, we successfully conducted two “OpenSpecimen Community Meetings” in USA and Australia. Attended by 80+ end users from 40+ customers, these events showcased how OpenSpecimen is used by leading biobanks in different scenarios. Here is a summary of both events.
OpenSpecimen Highlights
- Highlights of OSCON22 USA and Australia
- University Medical Center Utrecht goes live with OpenSpecimen
- OpenSpecimen v9.1 released (Release Notes)
Fresh of the Biobanking Press
- ISBER launches new biobank assessment tool
- Veterans Affairs holds the largest data on black Americans
- USF Health, Tampa General Hospital establish a medical biorepository
- Van Andel Institute’s biorepository receives a grant from NCI
- Vivo Biobank (UK) to boost research into children and young people’s cancers
- National Center Biobank Network, Japan to provide biospecimens for research
- MyAfroDNA biobank, aims to diversify translational and genomics research
- Durga Attili’s organoid research is helping to enhance biobanks
Recent Research Papers
- Improving practice of obtaining informed consent for biobanking in clinical settings
- Initiative on Avian Primordial Germ Cell cryobanking in Thailand
- Cryopreservation of human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells
Biobank Job Alerts
- Research Technologist II – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, Chicago
- Clinical Research Assistant II – Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
- Data Analyst – Columbia University Medical Center
- PS Study Coordinator – The University of Utah
- Research Scientist Engineer – University of Washington
- Research Associate – UT Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Data Strategist and Deputy Chief Information Officer – BBMRI-ERIC, Austria
- Special Scientist (Research Project Officer) – University of Cyprus
Upcoming Events
- ISBER 2023 Annual Meeting & Exhibits – May 3-6, 2023, Seattle, USA
- Europe Biobank Week 2023 – April 25–28 – Bologna Congress Center, Italy
- IBS 2023 Annual Conference & Exhibition – Feb 23-24, 2023, Delhi, India
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