How will you benefit from attending Pharma IQ’s Biobanking 2009 event?

The keys to unlocking the potential of translational and personalised medicines are:

• Collecting and having access to high quality human tissue and cells
• Making meaningful use out of these samples to identify therapeutic targets and predictive and prognostic biomarkers

“It is not an exaggeration to say a good biorepository can accelerate research by several years and an unfortunate choice can have the opposite effect.”
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The highly rated annual Biobanking 2009 conference will show you how to:

• Ensure your compliance with international regulations on human tissue and bio samples
• Align transparent processes across multiple research and clinical sites
• Collect high quality samples for optimal research use
• Harmonise, code and annotate sample data to make useful connections
• Assess cryo vs. ambient storage and mechanical vs. liquid nitrogen freezers for long-term storage
• Consider your outsourcing options – for routine processes and the whole of your bio sample collection

The Biobanking 2009 international speaker panel includes:

Dr. Peter Riegman Tissue Resource Manager Erasmus MC Tissue Bank and ISBER President Elect	Professor Aeree Kim Division of Human Tissue Bank Korea National Research Resource Center (KNRRC)
Amelia Wall Warner PharmD, RPh., Senior Principal Scientist, Clinical Pharmacogenomics, Early Clinical Research and Experimental Medicine Schering-Plough Research Institute	Björn Dahllöf, PhD. Global Biobank Head, DECS Translational Sciences AstraZeneca (Sweden)
Dr. Rivka Ravid Senior Scientist and Advisor Netherlands Institute for Neurosciences and Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences	Stig E. Bojesen Staff Specialist, Clinical Biochemistry Copenhagen University Hospital
Francis P. Crawley Executive Director Good Clinical Practice Alliance – Europe (GCPA)	Ken Wilke Director, Research Planning & Integration Merck Research Laboratories
Tim Peakman Executive Director UK Biobank	Dr. Andreas Koehler Global Head Clinical Pharmacogenetics Boehringer Ingelheim
Lisa B. Miranda President, Biobusiness Consulting Inc.	Prof. Gerry Thomas Professor of Molecular Pathology Imperial College London
Dr. Jim Vaught Deputy Director, Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research National Cancer Institute

Who will you meet and network with for best practice exchange?

At the Pharma IQ annual Biobanking event you will meet colleagues from industrial, academic and national biobanks in different stages of setting up, managing and using a biobank.

View the list of 120 participants from Biobanking 2008

Pre-Conference Training Courses: 15th September 2009

Don't miss the opportunity to sit down with your peers and biobanks leaders to learn fundamental operational and organisational skills to running successful biobanks. Training courses include:

• A) Tissue Bank Set-Up and Best Practices
• B) Navigating the Labyrinth of Post Mortem Tissue Banking
• C) Valuable Archives: The Importance of Collection, Stabilisation and Purification Technology to Future Results
• D) Practical Issues Collecting, Managing and Harmonising Biological Sample Information
• E) Evening Roundtable: Sample Exchange in International Research: Ethics, Regulation and Best Practices

If you are not yet ready to register, feel free to request a reminder nearer the time.

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