biobaking – OpenSpecimen https://www.openspecimen.org Biobank LIMS trusted by the leading research centers Wed, 15 Feb 2023 09:46:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.openspecimen.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Fevicon-ops.png biobaking – OpenSpecimen https://www.openspecimen.org 32 32 Jens Habermann Appointed Director General of BBMRI-ERIC https://www.openspecimen.org/jens-habermann-appointed-director-general-of-bbmri-eric/ Fri, 04 Sep 2020 08:58:09 +0000 https://www.openspecimen.org/?p=8086 Read more

]]> The Assembly of Members of the Biobanking and BioMolecular resources Research Infrastructure – European Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI-ERIC) appointed Professor Jens K. Habermann as the new Director-General. The distinguished scientist, clinician and recognized expert in biobanking, translational cancer research, and human genetics will take office in Graz on September 1st, 2020. He succeeds Erik Steinfelder who served as Director-General of BBMRI-ERIC from August 2017 to January 2020.

Prof. Habermann is currently President of ESBB (European, Middle Eastern & African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking) and holds three positions at the University of Lübeck and the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein: he is Head of the Interdisciplinary Center for Biobanking-Lübeck, Head of the Section for Translational Surgical Oncology and Biobanking, and he works clinically as a specialist in human genetics.

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]]> Need for the development of the microbiome biobanking infrastructure https://www.openspecimen.org/need-for-development-of-microbiome-biobanking-infrastructure/ Wed, 02 Sep 2020 10:38:28 +0000 https://www.openspecimen.org/?p=8064 Read more

]]> The microbiome research field is rapidly evolving, but the required biobanking infrastructure is currently fragmented and not prepared for the biobanking of microbiomes. The rapid advancement of technologies requires an urgent assessment of how biobanks can underpin research by preserving microbiome samples and their functional potential.

2019 Review Conference delegate Science Tour of CABI’s Egham Office

A team of scientists, led by CABI’s Dr. Matthew Ryan, have outlined a series of challenges and opportunities presented in a necessary review of how microbiomes – biological communities including bacteria, archaea, fungi, algae, protists, and viruses – can be ‘banked’ and preserved for generations to come. The researchers, who call for a prioritized list of what should be conserved from a scientific, economic, social, and environmental perspective, present their views in the journal Trends in Microbiology.

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]]> University of Cyprus adopts OpenSpecimen as its Biobanking LIMS https://www.openspecimen.org/university-of-cyprus-biobanking-lims/ Fri, 28 Aug 2020 09:10:23 +0000 https://www.openspecimen.org/?p=7997 Read more

]]> The University of Cyprus (UCY) adopts OpenSpecimen as its Biobanking LIMS. The Molecular Medicine Research Center (MMRC), now known as CY-Biobank is the first research center of UCY. It aims at developing front-line research on human genetic diseases and genomics, and offer better prospects for diagnosis, prevention, and therapy, in the framework of precision medicine.

The MMRC biobank will be using OpenSpecimen to –

  1. Manage biospecimens from multiple studies
  2. Collect clinical and pathology data
  3. Manage specimen request and distribution

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