"Hacettepe University  Biobank - A Research Infrastructure for Rare Diseases"

Ayşe Yüzbaşıoğlu, Meral Özgüç

Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Biology&DNA Cell Bank, Sıhhiye, Ankara, Turkey

"The TMF Fosters International Visibility of Biobanking in Germany by Establishing a National Biobank Registry with an Integrated User Portal"

Sebastian Claudius Semler [1], Michael Krawczak [2], Michael Hummel [3], Roman Siddiqui [1], Johannes Drepper [1], Cathleen Plotz [1], Mathias Freudigmann [1] and Michael Kientopf [4]

[1] TMF – Technology, Methods, and Infrastructure for Networked Medical Research, Berlin, Germany
[2] Institute of Medical Informatics and Statistics, University of Kiel, Germany
[3] Institute of Pathology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
[4] Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics, University of Jena, Germany

"Add-Mix-Read Assays for the Assessment of Cell Health Using an iPS Cardiomyocyte Cell Model"

Andrew Niles, Chad Zimprich, Blake Anson, Maya Fuerstenau-Sharp, Eric Vincent, and Tracy Worzella

Promega Corporation, 2800 Woods Hollow Road, Madison WI, USA

"Ambient temperature stabilization of genomic DNA in Salivary Samples"

S. Ghirmai, S. Whitney, S. Wilkinson, A. Stassinopoulus, S. Lutfunnessa, R. Muller,
J Muller-Cohn

Biomatrica Inc., 5627 Oberlin Drive, #120, San Diego, CA 92121, USA.

"Maintaining breast cancer specimen integrity and individual or simultaneous extraction of quality DNA, RNA and proteins from AllProtect-stabilized and non-stabilized tissue samples".

Blanaid C Mee [1], Paul Carroll [1], Simona Donatello [2], Elizabeth Connolly [1], Mairead Griffin [1], Barbara Dunne [1], Louise Burke [3], Richard Flavin [4], Hala Rizkalla [1], Ciara Ryan [1], Brian Hayes [1], Charles D’Adhemar [1], Niamh Banville [1], Nazia Faheem [1], Cian Muldoon [1], Eoin F Gaffney [1]

[1] St. James’s Hospital Biobank, Dublin, Ireland
[2] Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
[3] Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland
[4] University College Hospital Galway, Galway, Ireland

"Barriers to biobank harmonisation: evidence from professionals and practice"

Jessica Wright, Mary Dixon-Woods, Helen Eborall

University of Leicester, Department of Health Sciences, Leicester, UK