Biobanking in Personalized Medicine

This session is kindly supported by BBMRI.pl

Session Chairs

Peter Riegman, Head Erasmus MC Tissue Bank (Erasmus MC)

Nese Atabey, Professor, Principle Investigator & National Node of BBMRI-Turkey (Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center)

Speakers and Presentations  

• Ioannis Ragoussis, Professor (McGill University) - "Biobanking for patient-centred, genome-based oncology" 
• William Cookson, Professor of Genomic Medicine - Head of Respiratory Sciences (Imperial College London and ETOP) - "Biobanking within ETOP Clinical Trials to Advance Personalized Medicine on Thoracic Malignancies; Showcased by the ETOP ABC-lung Clinical Trial"  
• Joanna Clancy, Biobank Specialist (Finnish Red Cross Blood Service) - "Utilization of HLA imputation results of Finnish Biobank donors"  
• Hatem A.Azim, Medical Doctor (Hospital Zambrano Hellion and IBCSG) - "Biobanking within the International Breast Cancer Study Group (IBCSG) Clinical Trials to Advance Personalized Medicine on Breast Cancer; Showcased by the POSITIVE Study." 

Session Information

Biobanking provides a fundamental scientific infrastructure for personalized medicine – from prevention over diagnostics to treatment and surveillance. The aim of this session is to present how healthcare integrated biobanking can be a key factor to enable and accelerate personalized medicine advancements, e.g. by determining individual biomarkers or deep phenotype profiling with cutting-edge technologies for molecular diagnostics and therapy guidance.