A Showcase for Medical Biobanks
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www.biobanken.de is the address where biobanks and the materials stored in them can be easily researched in the future. "The German Biobanks Register provides transparency about important resources for modern medical research," explained Dr. Dr. Michael Kiehntopf, Acting Director of the Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics at the University Hospital Jena and TMF board member, who has supervised the establishment of the German Biobanks Register since 2010 as project leader. The new platform, which was already launched in March, is officially launched today with an event in Berlin.
With the German Biobanks Register, the TMF, which operates the register, fulfills transparency demands of the German Ethics Council and the Health Research Council: Both had suggested the establishment of such a biobanks register in recent years to ensure the necessary transparency about the goals, procedures, and available resources of biobank research for participants, the public, researchers, and funding organizations.
A Cornerstone of the National Biobanks Initiative
The register, whose expansion was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) from 2010 onwards and is based on preliminary work by the TMF, is a cornerstone of the National Biobanks Initiative and will strengthen the visibility of biobank resources nationally and internationally. "We now appeal to all biomedical researchers to use the German Biobanks Register - to register their biobanks and thus make their collections visible and to participate in the further development of the register," emphasized Sebastian C. Semler, the scientific managing director of the TMF, during the kick-off workshop.
Because of the event, the integrated user portal was also launched today, which is part of the register and is intended to support communication among researchers. The aim is, among other things, to develop quality standards for biobanks together. For researchers, the main focus will be on jointly clarifying technical, organizational, and regulatory issues from everyday biobank operations. The user portal is publicly accessible.
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