ESBB is a society for people involved in the collection and storage of biological materials from all species. The society is focussed on Europe, the Middle East and Africa and has its origins in another society, the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER). The main objectives are: Identify problems in the biobanking field and provide solutions; encourage high professional standards in biobanking; encourage participation from a wide range of repositories across the EMEA region; provide high value membership services for key actors in the biobanking field; and Partner with other organizations involved with, or related to biobanking.
About the Biobank at IDIBAPS
The biobank is a platform which works to obtain, store, manage and distribute large collections of human biological samples of phenotypes and diseases of marked interest for researchers. This makes work possible for many researchers, who may additionally request technical advice on human sample collection projects.
The biobank sample collection is made up of three extensive repositories: Neurological Tissue Bank Tumour bank and Anatomical Pathologies Collections Blood and Fluid bank. While the individual characteristics and complexity inherent to each group of samples requires separate management, all three biobanks are run according to the same set of criteria established by a central coordinating group. This transversal organization and structure have become a benchmark both in Catalonia and throughout Spain.