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German Biobank Registry Wins Poster Prize

First meeting of ESBB in Marseille: registry visibility enhanced outside Germany

November 29, 2011. The constituent meeting of the European, Middle Eastern & African Society for Biopreservation & Biobanking (ESBB), which took place in Marseille, France, from November 16 to 19, 2011, provided an ideal platform to also make the German Biobank Registry known to European specialist colleagues outside the German community. The TMF poster concerning the registry was awarded first prize out of 66 presentations in the category "Management of biobanking networks".

In Marseille the German Biobank Registry was represented by Dr. Roman Siddiqui, research fellow at TMF, with the poster entitled "The TMF Fosters International Visibility of Biobanking in Germany by Establishing a National Biobank Registry with an Integrated User Portal" (Semler et al. 2011. Biopreservation & Biobanking 9:295-6). Visibility and acceptance of the registry within the national and international scientific community are essential for success and long-term establishment as a research infrastructure in order to promote networking with other comparable national registries.

Development of the German Biobank Registry is being funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). A preliminary version is available to the public at www.biobanken.de. The official launch at the same address is scheduled for December 2011.