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Verona Conference
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www.esbb.org/verona

The 2013 ESBB conference will be held at the Palazzo Gran Guardia in Verona, Italy, on the 8th - 11th October, 2013.

 
Travel Fellowships
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Call for Applications
Travel fellowships to attend the Verona Biobanking conference in October 2013 are open to applicants from Hinari Group A & B countries (shaded green on the map above).
 
Uppsala IBS Report

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Click here to download the official report of the first International Biobanking Summit held in Uppsala, Sweden, September 19, 2012.

 

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  EU Science Conference   Bio: April 2013  
 

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The biobanking session in the "Global Challenges, Global Collaboration" conference (Brussels, 6th March), featured presentations by Rita Lawlor (ESBB), Kurt Zatloukal (BBMRI) and Bartha Knoppers (P3G). Please click to download:

 
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Africa Working Group
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Research Biobank of the Year Competition
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Call for Entries
 
Working Groups
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Web pages for ESBB and ESBB-ISBER working groups are now online:
 
Granada Conference
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For information about the ESBB conference last year, click here: www.esbb.org/granada
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ESBB Partners & Sponsors
ESBB is a partner with the European Association for Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine (EPMA). To download a copy of the EPMA-ESBB memorandum of understanding, click here
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The Memorandum of Understanding between the Asian Network for Research Resource Centers (ANRRC) and ESBB was signed by the Presidents, Professor Yeonhee Lee and Dr Peter Riegman at the 4th_International_Meeting_of_ANRRC on Jeju Island, South Korea, on 19th October 2012. This collaboration agreement covers exchange of information, reports and publications, promotion of standardisation, personnel training exchanges, exchange of speakers at annual conferences and additional measures to encourage synergy between the two societies. The ANRRC is also an Affiliate Partner of ISBER.
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ESBB has joined the Rare Cancers Europe group

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Web Statistics for www.esbb.org
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Generated by Webalizer Version 2.21

The chart above shows a steady increase in visits from February to October 2012, with an expected decrease in the holiday month of August. There was a peak of approximately 10,000 visits in the month of October, immediately before the Granada conference. This year there are an increasing number of visits per month: in April 2013 there were 2X as many visits as April 2012.

Number of visits in the past 12 months: 69,616

 
"ESBBperanto"

The ESBBperanto Working Group is dedicated to harmonising definitions and languages in biobank databases to enable comparability of biomaterials and data across different biobanks and countries.

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"ESBBtranslate"

The ESBBtranslate Working Group brings together ESBB members and pharma/ biotech industry represent- atives in order to identify, elaborate and launch common research projects. Concepts to maximize the societal benefit and scientific and economic valorisation of biobank-based health R & D (e.g. the concept of Open Innovation) will be identified, evaluated and applied.

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Proficiency Testing Programme
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The ISBER Proficiency Testing programme for biorepositories is now open for registration. Proficiency testing is the best means of evaluating and maintaining the accuracy of your laboratory's results! For more details click here
 
H3Africa Initiative
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The Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) initiative is a joint initiative of the US National Institutes of Health and the Wellcome Trust, in partnership with the African Society of Human Genetics (AfSHG). Background information is provided on the H3Africa_website. To see the Press Briefing at the start of this initiative on June 22nd 2010 click_here.

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For news about the first recipients of H3Africa grants, click_here.

H3Africa Social Networking Website

 
BRIF Initiative
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For information and news about the Bio-Resource Impact Factor or BRIF:

  1. Cambon-Thomsen et al. The role of a bioresource research impact factor as an incentive to share human bioresources. Nature Genetics 43, 503–504 (2011)
  1. BRIF Newsletter No 6. December 2012

 

   
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