Biobanking of Human Biospecimens (PDF)

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