Is a Biobank a Facility or Research Project?
This question was asked in an international biobanking community forum back in April 2021. Answers were equivocal with many respondents taking each way bet saying ‘both’. But this is not …
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The Ethics of Data Sharing and Biobanking in Health Research
The importance of data sharing and biobanking is increasingly being recognized in global health research. Such practices are perceived to have the potential to promote science by maximizing the utility …
QAI Issues First Accreditation Certificate to National Liver Disease Biobank
Quality and Accreditation Institute issued a biobank accreditation certificate to the National Liver Disease Biobank (NLDB) of the Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences. This became the first biobank accreditation certificate …
Cleveland Clinic Open State-of-the-Art Biorepository
Cleveland Clinic and Brooks Automation have opened a biorepository that will increase the storage capacity for biologic samples at Cleveland Clinic while enhancing researchers’ study of human tissue samples to …
Thyroid Cancer Registry at University of Nebraska
Thyroid cancer (TC) is the most common endocrine-related malignancy. It is projected that by 2030, it will become the fourth leading cancer diagnosis. Several known risk factors for TC include …
ACSR’s SOP for Emergency Shutdown and Reopening of Biobanks
Most biobanks operating under Best Practices from either the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER), or the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) …
Does biobanking hold the key to achieving universal health?
Increasing the availability of high-quality biological samples through biobanks has the potential to advance global health research and speed up progress towards Sustainable Development Goals such as achieving universal health coverage, a UN science …
Biobanking: Strengthening Uganda’s Rapid Response to COVID-19 and Other Epidemics
SARS-CoV-2 is a fatal disease of global public health concern. Measures to reduce its spread critically depend on a timely and accurate diagnosis of virus-infected individuals. During epidemics and pandemics …
Biobanks, Biotechs and the Need to Recognize a Crisis
What does it take to get people to recognize that a crisis exists? Sometimes it is necessary to tell people again and again and again, to overcome the in-built human …
Uganda Launches National Research Biobanking Guidelines
The Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovations Dr. Monica Musenero has launched the National Research Biobanking framework at Next Media Park in Kampala. The substructure which was unveiled on September …