Our theme of this year’s ISBER 2016 Annual Meeting & Exhibits is Breaking Down Walls: Unifying Biobanking Communities to Secure our Sustainability. The conference will focus on different fields of biobanking and how biobanking communities can act in concert to increase sustainability and to secure the future of biobanking.

The key note lecture will highlight the role in which biobanking is already playing as a tool to tackle current and future medical and environmental challenges and how important it is for research, development, education, and policy making.

The Annual Meeting & Exhibits will offer you multiple plenary sessions dealing with quality management (accreditation, certification), biospecimen research and quality (creating a ‘gold standard’), strategies for collaborative data management, and ethical, legal, and social implications in biobanking and precision medicine, and educational and corporate workshops.

Contributed paper presentations, poster sessions, and working group discussions will allow you to discuss and network with your international colleagues. Companies from around the world will demonstrate the latest products, services and technology in the field of repository and specimen collection and testing.