Interview with Dr. Robert Hewitt, Biosample Hub
The pharmaceutical industry has the infrastructural and financial resources to bring novel drugs and vaccines into the clinic. It would greatly help expedite their timeline if they had access to biobanks at academic institutes, in order to better understand...
Biobanking Knowledge and Practical Skills Delivered Through E-learning-based Master’s Program
Article contributed by Gabriele Hartl, Christine Mitchell, Tanja Macheiner, Brigitte Jaksa, Berthold Huppertz and Karine Sargsyan, at Medical University of Graz.
Background
With the development of modern biobanks, the need for multidisciplinary and qualified personnel has increased. Working in such an environment...
The Anatomy of a Refrigeration Failure: What Happens at 2:00 a.m. When Mission Critical...
Article contributed by Chris Wilkes, chief commercial officer at KLATU Networks, Inc.
Ultralow temperature (ULT) freezers often contain high-value biopharmaceuticals and/or irreplaceable research. When you leave at the end of the day or for the weekend, you need confidence that...
How Biobanks Can Support Personalized Medicine
Biobanks should be an integral part of a comprehensive research platform, not exclusively viewed as a service provider or freezer farm managed with excel sheets. For biobanks to be be viewed as a contributing partner and one that can...
How the University of California Davis Pathology Biorepository Achieved CAP Accreditation with OpenSpecimen
Sponsored content brought to you by Research in precision medicine requires a continuous supply of high-quality biospecimens. But as the saying goes - “Garbage in garbage out”, meaningful conclusions from the studies can only be drawn when the researchers are...
Interview with Dr. Tony Cox OBE, CEO at UK Biocentre
UK Biocentre is a not-for-profit organisation providing world-leading sample management and high-capacity bioprocessing services to biomedical researchers. They provide sample collection, sample logistics, processing, nucleic acidic extraction, sample storage, and shipping management.
UK Biocentre is currently commissioned by the UK...
Virtual Biobanking Trends and Challenges in COVID-19 Pandemic Era
In the last three decades, biobanks have evolved significantly all over the globe and recognized as an increasingly important source of data for medical research since the late 1990s. Having developed from freezer farms to rich data repositories, biobanks...
The Impact of Preanalytical Procedures on Biospecimen Quality
Successful research depends on high-quality biospecimens. Many researchers rely on biobanks to supply fit-for-purpose samples to support their clinical, translational, and biomedical studies. Biobanks and biorepositories play a critical role in modern genomics research by providing scientists with high-quality...
Utilizing Modular Biobanking Software in Different Types of Biobanking Activities
Abstract Biobanking defines all activities linked to bioresource management—whether of human, animal, microbial, or environmental origin—which means that any biobank information management system should take into account the multistep life cycle of the samples: from acquisition, through preparation, storage, to...
Interview with Dr Alison Parry-Jones, Operations Director of Wales Cancer Bank
For this article, Biobanking.com interviewed Alison Parry-Jones (BSc, MA, PhD, MRSC), the Operations Director of the Wales Cancer Bank (WCB). She is responsible for the day to day running of the biobank and is based at the University Hospital...
