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Fresh of the Biobanking Press

• MUSC prepares biorepository of COVID-19 samples for research
• UC establishes biorepository to collect samples from COVID-19 patients
• Biobanking on the future: Project to unravel the effects of COVID-19
• SHE Center at Dana Farber form SHE Biobank, a population health initiative for research and education
• Scientists studying blood from hundreds of Montreal COVID patients in “biobank”
• Lithuania joins the European Biobanking Research Infrastructure as an observe
• Bio-banking in Microbiology: From sample collection to epidemiology, diagnosis and research (Pubmed Paper)

Biobank Job Alerts

• Sample Manager and Biobank Coordinator – Forbius – Montreal, Canada
• Program Coordinator II – Biobank Core – Boston Children’s Hospital, USA
• Laboratory Associate, Biorepository – George Washington University – USA
• Biorepository Technologist – Hackensack Meridian Health – New Jersey, USA
• Manager, Biorepository – Sangmo Therapeutics, California, USA

OpenSpecimen News

• V7.0 release: We are happy to announce the release of v7.0. As always there are many new features, improvements, and bug fixes (release notes).
• New Feature: eConsent: Track consents as per the study needs. Create consent versions, consent form versioning, patient mode entry, email consents, reporting, and much more.
• New Feature: Mobile Application: Aimed at clinical coordinators to register participants, visits, and primary specimens, and support offline mode (without internet).
• Client Case Study: Why University of Basel (Switzerland) selected OpenSpecimen as its Biobanking LIMS?

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Fresh of the Press

• Lagos biobank to tackle Lassa fever, Coronavirus
• California Biobank stores DNA of every California infant
• A Living Biobank Of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Organoids
• Individualized care for psychiatric disorders – Mayo Clinic Biobank
• Researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi filter paper for cryopreservation
• edu-BRoTHER: a student exchange program providing biobanking skills
• NIH awards UB $21.7 million to continue Buffalo’s research and health-care
• New Tick Cell Biobank to support research on tick-borne diseases in Africa

Biobank Job Alerts

• Laboratory Technologist – NewYork, USA
• Quality Manager– Victorian Cancer Biobank, Australia
• Project Officer – Biobank – MCRI, Melbourne, Australia
• Healthcare Assistant – Berkshire, UK Biobank
• Lupus Biobank Operations Manager – Lupus Research Alliance, New York
• Biobank Technician – UCLA Health – USA

Upcoming Events

ISBER 2020 Annual Meeting: Anaheim, USA (14-18 April 2020)

OpenSpecimen News

• Is OpenSpecimen CFR Part-11 compliant?
• CAP accreditation by University of California (Davis)
• Auckland Region Tissue Bank adopts OpenSpecimen
• How to use OpenSpecimen to manage longitudinal studies?

• OpenSpecimen talk at the CI4CC conference at Napa Valley (Mar 13th)
• OpenSpecimen v3.0 released and whats coming up in v3.1
• Univ of Auckland – First biobank in NZ to adopt OpenSpecimen

• Tracking freeze/thaw cycles
• Copy down distribution amounts
• New field for specimens – cell count