1. Biobanking for Biomarker Discovery
2. Biobank design and infrastructure: Biobank Engineering
3. Biocomputing for biobanks: Workflow and information management systems for biobanks
4. Tissue Preservation and Factors Affecting Tissue Quality5. The use of paraffin blocks/pathology archives for clinical biobanking
6. Biobanking Best Practices and Publication Standards
7. Ethical challenges for biobanks - two sides of the coin8. Ten years of experience in training Biobank Managers at Master level in France.
9. National biobank networking: The case of Spain
10. Public-private Partnership in Biobanking: The Model of the BBMRI-ERIC Expert Centres
11. The future of biobanking: meeting tomorrow's challenges
About the Author: Pierre Hainaut, Ph.D., is Professor of Cancer Biology at University Grenoble-Alpes, France. As head of Molecular Carcinogenesis at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, World Health Organization), he has led the development of international standards for biobanking in molecular epidemiology and pathology, and has been involved in projects implementing biomarkers in molecular epidemiological studies in different parts of the world. Since 2015, he is Director of the Institute for Advanced Biosciences, a joint research center of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Université Grenoble-Alpes, dedicated to Epigenetics, Environment, Cell Plasticity and Cancer. He is President of Cancerople CLARA, a structure that coordinates research and innovation on cancer across the Auvergne Rhône Alpes Region in France.
Jim Vaught, Ph.D., spent 14 years at the U.S. National Cancer Institute, most recently as the Chief of the Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research Branch. He has been working in the field of biobanking and biospecimen science for over 20 years. In 1999, he was one of the founding members of the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) and served two terms as its president. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Prevention Research Institute in Lyon. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of Biopreservation and Biobanking, the official journal of ISBER. In 2017 he was appointed as a Guest Professor at Central South University in Changsha China, where he is a lecturer for a post-graduate biobanking course. In 2018 he was appointed as a Guest Professor at Children's Hospital of Shanghai.
Kurt Zatloukal, MD, is Professor of Pathology at the Medical University of Graz. He coordinated the preparatory phase of a European biobanking and biomolecular resources research infrastructure (BBMRI) within the 7th EU framework programme, and is the Austrian National Node Director of BBMRI. His research fields are molecular pathology of liver diseases and cancer, and the development of biobanking as well as data management technologies. He is member of the Austrian Standards Institute and CEN and ISO technical committees contributing to several ISO standards related to sample pre-analytics and molecular diagnostics.
Markus Pasterk is Senior Special Projects Officer at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and Senior Advisor for X-Officio, Lund, Sweden. He is also Senior consultant for International Relations at the Austrian Drug Screening Institute in Austria and Visiting Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy. Before that he was CEO of ADSI (2018-2019) and Administrative Director of BBMRI-ERIC, the pan-European Research Infrastructure for Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources with Headquarters in Graz, Austria from 2014-2018 as well as Chief Operating Officer and Vice President/Science, at the International Prevention Research Institute in Lyon, France 2009-2013 and Scientific Coordinator of the International Agency for Research of Cancer in Lyon, France 2006-2009. He is an expert in research & development policy and teaches Financial Management of International Research Infrastructures.
