as china's first awardee of the award, gan rongxing said the prize was awarded to all chinese biobanking workers. china's rapid progress in the field of biobanking should be attributed to the concerted efforts of all the workers. at the same time, his award is inseparable from the leadership and colleagues. he will continue to further develop their own advantages in resources and platform, and actively contribute to the construction of chinese biobanking development.
isber is a global organization which creates opportunities for sharing ideas and innovations in biobanking and harmonizes approaches to evolving challenges for biological and environmental repositories. isber will be the leading global forum for promoting harmonized high quality standards, ethical principles, and innovation in the science and management of biorepositories.
with the theme of '“breaking down walls: unifying biobanking communities to secure our sustainability”, the isber 2016 annual meeting and exhibits program has attracted nearly 675 participants from 34 countries .they explored the latest topics and the future plan of biopreservation and biobanking. over the last year the scientific program advisory committee has worked hard to set up a program that highlights the values of biobanking for human and environmental health. it concentrates not only on the exchange of knowledge between the different biobanking communities—the pharmaceutical, medical and environmental—but also between technology developers and users. in the dynamic field of biobanking, learning from experiences in operations, data handling, ethical aspects, and biobanking management is essential to identify existing and substantial hurdles which need to be overcome to reach sustainability. as the only global forum for a broad range of biorepository related issues and collection types, isber’s annual meeting continues to be the key meeting for biorepository operators, scientists, consultants, and vendors.
in the past few years, scrc and sercb have been actively engaged in international events and cooperation in the field of biobanking. scrc and sercb is willing to establish broad cooperation with internationally famed organizations or society, such as isber, learn from the international experience and promote the biobank development in china.
