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Biobanking 2016 Report
Sensing the raising importance of Biobanks, Conference LLC hosted the “2nd International Conference & Exhibition on Tissue Preservation and Biobanking” (Biobanking-2016), during September 12-13, 2016 in Philadelphia, USA with a theme “Global Innovations in Tissue preservation and Biobanking Technologies”. Benevolent response and active participations were received from the Editorial Board Members of Conference LLC Journals as well as from the Biobank project managers, Embryologists, Hematologists, Stem Cell researchers, Scientists, Doctors, Students and Leaders from the fields of Cell and Stem Cell Research, who made this event inspiringly successful.
The Biobanking-2016 Conference was carried out through various sessions with discussions on the following thought provoking and cerebrating scientific tracks:
· Human cancer biobank
· Biorepository & Biospecimen
· Disease based biobank
· Cryopreservation Methods
· Vitrification
· Brain Banking
· Biobank Ethics
· Biobank in Microbiology
· Next Generation Biobanking
· Biobank in Genomics
· Fertility biobanks
· Germplasm Bank
· Immune banking
· Biobank Applications
· Biobanking Informatics
· Market Analysis in Biobanking
· Tissue engineering
· Stem cell Biobanking
The Organizing Committee would like to thank the moderator Dr. Mary A Hall, UT health sciences, USA and Dr. Elena Salvaterra, Air liquide Sanità Service, Italy for their contribution which resulted in smooth functioning of the conference.
The conference was initiated and embarked with an opening ceremony followed by Keynote presentations, workshop and a series of lectures delivered by both Honorable Guests and members of the Keynote forum. The peerless people who promulgated the theme with their Keynote presentations were;
Kelvin GM Brockbank - Ice-free banking by vitrification of tissues (Tissue Testing Technologies LLC, USA)
Simone Chevalier - The Quebec procure prostate cancer biobank: A unique resource for comprehensive studies of the disease (McGill Urology Director of Research, Canada)
Stephen C Peiper - Biospecimen repository genomic annotations in the precision medicine era (Thomas Jefferson University, USA)
Fiorella Guadagni- Biobanks as a pivotal research infrastructure in precision medicine (San Raffaele Rome University, Italy)
Yoed Rabin- Mechanical stress and structural integrity in vitrification (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Mitchel C. Schiewe - Applying the KISS principle with vitrification: Safety and quality control concerns in assisted reproductive technologies (Ovagen Fertility, USA)
Various sessions were chaired and co-chaired by: Kelvin GM Brockbank (Tissue Testing Technologies LLC, USA); Simone Chevalier (McGill Urology Director of Research, Canada), USA; Charles W Wang, (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China); Yaffa Rubinstein (National Institute of Health, USA).
Conference Series LLC has taken the privilege of felicitating Biobanking-2016 Organizing Committee, Editorial Board Members and Keynote Speakers who supported for the success of this conference.
The esteemed guests, keynote speakers and researchers shared their innovative research and vast experience through their informative presentations at the podium of Biobanking-2016. We are glad to inform that all accepted abstracts for the conference have been published in Journal of Tissue Science & Engineering: Open Access as a special issue.
We are also obliged to various experts, company representatives and other eminent scientists who supported the conference by facilitating the discussion forums. We sincerely thank the Organizing Committee Members for their gracious presence, support, and assistance. With the unique feedback from the conference, Conference Series LLC would like to proudly announce the commencement of the “3rd International Conference & Exhibition on Tissue Preservation and Biobanking" to be organized during August 23-24, 2017 at San Francisco, USA.
Mark your calendars for the upcoming Conference; we are hoping to see you soon!
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Kelvin G.M. Brockbank
Simone Chevalier
Stephen C Piper
Veronica Ponce de Leon
Paul Murphy
Elena Salvaterra
Henry Li
Mary A Hall
John Baust
Charles W Wang
Xiaopu Yuan
Mohamed Zayed
Estephan Arredondo Córdova
Ping Zhang
Igor I. Katkov
Mitchel C Schiewe 
Roberto Hernan 
Bo He
Pavel Mericka
Daniele Mondello