Register for the new version of the MOOC Biobanking, led by Fay Betsou

The digital education office is pleased to invite you to sign up for the completely rebuilt edition of the Biobanking MOOC.

Biobanks are entities ensuring the management and preservation of biological resources, such as biological fluids or tissues of human origin, living cells, microbes, and their associated data. The major objective of biobanks is to preserve these resources in optimal conditions to maintain their integrity and make them available to the scientific community to both advance research and knowledge worldwide and facilitate the identification of biomarkers and the development of innovative drugs, vaccines or diagnostic tests.

In this MOOC, different aspects of acquisition, processing, and preservation of different types of biological resources are discussed. Specificities of human and microbial biobanking are mentioned. Several sessions are devoted to the quality assurance of these biobanks to meet international standards.

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

•    Understand how biobanks allow end-users to access fit-for-purpose biological resources
•    Be aware of the ethical, regulatory and quality assurance aspects of processing, preservation and distribution of biological resources
•    Learn about validation of biobank methods
•    Get to know international networks of biobanks

Additional information:
•    Opens on March 4, 2025
•    Directed by Fay BETSOU, director of the Biological Resource Center of Institut Pasteur
•    Animated by Raquel HURTADO-ORTIZ, head of the National Collection of Cultures of Microorganisms.

As a Pasteurian, you can now access at any time all the content of the 24 online courses created by Institut Pasteur.

As a doctoral student, you can take advantage of the free Digital Diploma in Infectious Diseases (DNM2IP). This MOOC is one of 18 MOOC’s labeled to obtain the diploma launched in 2019 and which already has more than 2500 registrants in all continents.