The 7th Annual Australasian Biospecimen Network (ABN) Meeting will be held on the 6th November, 2009 at the Citigate Albert Park, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The ABN Meeting Dinner will be held at The Point, Albert Park Lake on the evening of Thursday 5th November, prior to the meeting.
Further details will follow shortly.
The purpose of the Australasian Biospecimen Network (ABN) is to provide a forum to address technical, legal / ethical, and managerial issues relevant to human biospecimen repositories within Australia and New Zealand.
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sharing information and developing educational materials on technical issues, regulatory issues, and human subject and confidentiality issues; |
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developing consensus standards; |
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assisting government organisations in developing regulations impacting repository activities; |
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providing information about sources of equipment and expertise; |
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assisting vendors in recognising repository needs and in developing applicable products; |
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providing information about existing repositories and their holdings through our database; |
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act as a source of information and experience for new biorepositories, for example in the development of SOPs. |
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The ABN is a non-profit scientific organisation with voluntary membership in Australia and New Zealand, and the ABN-Oncology sub-group is partially funded by an NHMRC Enabling Grant. If you would like to be added to our email list, please send an email to Anita Matusan. |
