4.-5. december 2017, Regensburg
Scientific symposium was organised by University Regensburg to present current most important tasks and issues in actual biobanking. Symposium was opened by the Dean of the Faculty T. Reichert, welcome address was done by the dean M. Evert, Director of the Institute of Pathology and Mrs R. Bonacková, from Bavarian-Czech Research Agency.
The scientific part opened the coordinator of the BRoTHER Ch. Brochhausen, presenting the network of biobanks, followed by presentations on structured data by T. Rau (Switzerland), importance of preanalytics G. Micheletti (Italy). Karolinska Instituted and its vision of sustainability presented M. Divers (Sweden), automatisation for cryopreservation D. Pericolini (Italy), P. De Blasio the former president of ESBB (European, Middle Eastern and African Society for Biopreservation and Bioanking) explained the tissue biobanks and their role in personalised medicine, and the session was closed by O. Schell (Germany) with the presentation about digital workflow form tissues microarrays. The second day was devoted to the software programmes and solutions for biobanking and presenting of biobank in Regensburg and application-training in soft and hardware.