Register for the third edition of the MOOC Biobanking

The digital education office is pleased to invite you to sign up for the third edition of the Biobanking MOOC, broadcasted from march 15 to Mai 17, 2023, led by Raquel Hurtado-Ortiz.

Biobanks are entities ensuring the governance, management and conservation of biological resources, such as living cells, viruses, bacteria and fungi, 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 development of innovative drugs, vaccines or diagnostic tests.

In this MOOC, the organizational aspects of sampling, collection, transport and conservation of different biological resources, which vary depending on the material considered, are discussed, as well as the organization and management of a biobank and its equipment. Peculiarities of human sampling and of the conservation and utilization of human samples is approached. Several sessions are devoted to the quality control of these biobanks to meet international regulations.

At the end of this course, you will be able to:
•   Understand how these biobanks allow end-users to have permanent access to fit-for-purpose samples.
•   Know how the long-term storage of samples should be structured
•   Be aware of the ethics, regulatory aspects and quality issues behind preservation and distribution of biological resources
•   Understand how biobanks are linked throughout the world.

This MOOC is one of 17 MOOC’s labeled to obtain the Institut Pasteur Online Diploma of Infectious Diseases (DNM2IP), a diploma launched in 2019 and which already has more than 1100 registrants in all continents.

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