Biobanking of Human Biospecimens

1. Principles of Cryopreservation
Allison Hubel, Amy P. N. Skubitz

2. Quality Assurance and Quality Control in Biobanking
Fay Betsou

3. Economics of Biobanking
Jim Vaught, Peter H. Watson

4. Safety Issues in Biorepositories
William E. Grizzle, Jerry Fredenburgh, Katherine C. Sexton, Walter C. Bell

5. Biobanks as Producers of Reference Materials
Fay Betsou

6. Population Biobanks and the Principle of Reciprocity
Ma’n H. Zawati, Bartha Maria Knoppers

7. Biobank and Expertise Networks
R. E. Hewitt, W. E. Grizzle, P. H. Watson, Y. Lee, J.-H. Donato, J. Vaught

8. Networking Biobanks Throughout Europe: The Development of BBMRI-ERIC
Eero Vuorio

9. P3G: Towards an International Policy Platform for Population Genomics
Vasiliki Rahimzadeh, Anne Marie Tassé, Sylvie Ouellette, Bartha Maria Knoppers, Isabel Fortier

10. Biobanks in Low Resource Contexts
Rita T. Lawlor

11. Chinese Biobanking Initiatives
Rongxing Gan, Huiyuan Wang, Yutong Song, Jinli Fan, Yan Xiong

12. Biobanking in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges
Jim Vaught

13. Cryobanking Biomaterials from Wild Animal Species to Conserve Genes and Biodiversity: Relevance to Human Biobanking and Biomedical Research
Pierre Comizzoli, David E. Wildt

Keywords: Biomedicine, Laboratory Medicine