Molecular Oncology
Volume 2, Issue 3 , Pages 213-222 , October 2008

Biobanking for better healthcare

  • Peter H.J. Riegman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Josephine Nefkens Institute, Erasmus Medical Center, Be 235b, Dr Molwaterplein 50, 3015 GE Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Pathology, Josephine Nefkens Institute, Be 235b, Erasmus Medical Center, Dr Molwaterplein 50, 3015 GE Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 107044421; fax: +31 107044762.
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  • Manuel M. Morente

      Affiliations

    • Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas, Melchor Fernandez Almagro 3, 28029 Madrid, Spain
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  • Fay Betsou

      Affiliations

    • Biobanque de Picardie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Amiens, avenue René Laënnec, 80480 Salouel, France
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  • Pasquale de Blasio

      Affiliations

    • BioRep srl, Via Fantoli 16/15, 20138 Milano, Italy
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  • Peter Geary

      Affiliations

    • Canadian Tumour Repository Network, 675 McDermot Avenue, Rm. ON 6022 Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E OV9, Canada
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  • the Marble Arch International Working Group on Biobanking for Biomedical Research

      Affiliations

    • Marble Arch Working group members: Fay Betsou, Biobanque de Picardie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Amiens, Salouel, France; Roger Bjugn, Ullevaal University Hospital, Oslo, Norway; Brian Clark, Oncore UK, Hertfordshire, UK; Johan Botling, Department of Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala, Sweden; Pasquale Deblasio, Biorep S.r.l., Milan, Italy; Mylene Deschenes, P3G Consortium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Rajiv Dhirr, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA, USA; Ian Fore, Biorepository and Pathology Informatics, NCI Center for Bioinformatics, Rockville, USA; Eoin Gaffney, Consultant Histopathologist, Department of Histopathology, St. James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland; Peter Geary, Canadian Tumour Repository Network, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Peter Goebell Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.William Grizzle, Tissue Collection & Banking Facility, University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA; Pierre Hainaut, International Agency for Research on Cancer, IARC, Lyon, France; Jane Hair, Bio Bank Services, Pathology Department Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK; Robert Hewitt, NUH-NUS Tissue Repository, National University Hospital, Singapore; Karen Meir, Department of Pathology, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel; Anne-Marie Mes-Masson, Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Lisa Miranda, University of Pennsylvania, Haddon Township, USA; Manuel Morente, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas, Madrid, Spain; Alison Parry-Jones Wales Cancer Bank, Cardiff, UK.Alexandre Passioukov EORTC Data Center, Brussels, Belgium; Peter Riegman, Department of Pathology, Josephine Nefkens Institute, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Jose Claudio Casali Da Rocha, Brazilian National Tumor Bank, Instituto Nacional de Cancer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Daniel Simeon-Dubach Foundation Biobank-Suisse, Bern, Switzerland; Fernando Soares, A C Camargo Biobank, Hospital A C Camargo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Gerry Thomas, Wales Cancer Bank, Cardiff, UK; Jim Vaught, Office of Biorepositories & Biospecimen Research, NCI/OD, Bethesda, USA; Nikolajs Zeps, Radiation Oncology, Sir Charles Gaidner Hospital, Perth, Australia.

Received 15 July 2008 ,Revised 18 July 2008 ,Accepted 21 July 2008.

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PII: S1574-7891(08)00094-X

doi: 10.1016/j.molonc.2008.07.004

Molecular Oncology
Volume 2, Issue 3 , Pages 213-222 , October 2008

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