European, Middle Eastern and African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking
Budget
€50 — €0
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
6
1.75 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
According to the ESBB's vision EMPOWERING BIOSHARING and mission "Advance biosharing for a better world through mobilising, inspiring, and educating the biobank community across EMEA", the aim is to meet the following goals in the field of biobanking and biopreservation of biological resources (human, animal, plant, microbial and environmental) within Europe, Middle-East, Africa, and beyond. 1) Identify issues encountered in the biobanking field and provide solutions. 2) Encourage and support high professional standards in biobanking. 3) Provide high value membership services in the biobanking field. 4) Encourage participation from a wide range of stakeholders in the biobanking field across the EMEA region. 5) Provide a strong united voice for biobankers to influence development of their field. 6) Partner with other key organizations involved with or related to biobanking. 7) Encourage and support public-private biobank-related partnerships because of their scientific, me (...)
EU Legislative Interests
ESBB particularly targets the EU strategies "EU Health Strategy" and "EU Data Strategy". Furthermore, ESBB particularly targets the following EU legislative policies: "EU Health Policy" with legislation adoption in pharmaceuticals & medical devices (pharmacovigilance, falsified medicines, clinical trials) and Organs, blood, tissue and cells; "Blood, tissues, cells and organs"; "Cancer"; "Data Protection"; "Digital Health"; "Education and Training"; "Endocrine disruptors including human biomonitoring"; "European reference networks"; "Health data collection"; "Rare diseases"; and "Research and innovation as well as Research and innovation in health".
Communication Activities
The largest event is the "Europe Biobank Week" organized annually in partnership together with BBMRI-ERIC. In addition, ESBB is the international lead partner of the International Biobank Conference in Doha, Qatar in 2019 and 2021. ESBB's last communication activity with the EU was answering the survey on the EU Data Strategy and an ESBB position statement to the EU Data Strategy. Furthermore, ESBB's working group on GDPR was giving a public webinar on practical implementation of GDPR. ESBB leadership together with the European Human Biomonitoring community recently published the following article: Towards Harmonized Biobanking for Biomonitoring: A Comparison of Human Biomonitoring-Related and Clinical Biorepositories (in Biopreserv. Biobank. 2020 Apr;18(2):122-135. doi: 10.1089/bio.2019.0092.)
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
ESBB
Organisation Members
Individual members: 50 individuals Biobank and Academic institutions: Hopital Pasteur - Pavillion J Dept. of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Paterson Institute for Cancer Research Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien University Hospitals Leuven Jessa ziekenhuis - Campus Virga Jesse University of Leicester Fundación Pública Andaluza Progreso y Salud Medical University Graz VIB VZW Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland Instituto de Investigación en Enfermedades Raras-Instituto de Salud Carlos III NHLS / Stellenbosch University National Cancer Institute, Lithuania Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology, Queen's University Belfast SPHO Biobank Network AIR LIQUIDE Medical GmbH Department of Molecular Biophysics University Hospital Heidelberg Fondation Jean Dausset-CEPH ASK-Health UMC Utrecht Biobank Institute for Regenerative Medicine CIBER, Instituto de Salud Carlos III Biothèque Wallonie Bruxelles (BWB) Institut für Pathologie ESTBB - Ecole Supérieure de Biologie-Biochimie-Biotechnologies IDIBAPS BIOBANK National Health Laboratory Service Biobank (NHLS Biobank) Interdisciplinary Biobank and Database Frankfurt (iBDF) UZ Gent – Accounting CCLG Tissue Bank Manager UMR, University Medicine Rostock Swiss Biobanking Platform, SBP University Medical Center Göttingen, UMG Biobank Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research International Breast Cancer Study Group (IBCSG) & European Thoracic Oncology Platform (ETOP) Natural History Museum London Danish National Biobank AHRI CRB CHU Nantes Wroclaw Medical University Biobank Abu Dhabi Health Services company Ukraine Association of Biobank Company members: Noray Bioinformatics, S.L.U. MVE Chart Thermo Electron LED GmbH BioKryo GmbH Modul-Bio Tissue Solutions BiobankAS Indivumed GmbH IMS Bluechiip Limited Worthington Cylinders GmbH ASKION GmbH Brooks Automation Cryotherm GmbH & Co. KG Ziath Ltd Technidata Micronic Europe B.V. Trans-Hit Biomarkers Labmode Ltd LVL technologies GmbH & Co. KG East West Biopharma Greiner Bio-One GmbH GENOHM Cryo-products Biocartis NV SIAD Healthcare S.p.a. Synevo Central Labs Clinical Trials Romania SRL Seralab - a division of BioreclamationIVT Bruker BioSpin GmbH BIOSIGMA SRL KAIROS BC Platforms AG Hamilton Storage GmbH Fluidigm France SARL LiCONiC GmbH IRELEC Informeleon LifeScience Technologies ISENET Biobanking srl Jutta Ohst German-Cryo GmBH Neumaier Logistics GmBh 300K Consarctic GmbH 3-CR Genomics Medicine Ireland NIZHMEDKLINIKA LTD Audubon Bioscience Galapagos Asistec Auguste Cryogenics Germany GmbH
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.