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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Dear all<BR>
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At the ISBER biobanking meeting in Rotterdam organized by the International Society of Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) last month we set a new records for the number of delegates and the number of abstracts submitted. From this and much other evidence, there is a high level of interest in biobanking in Europe.<BR>
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Steps are being taken to form a European African Chapter (or sub-division) of ISBER which will provide all the services offered by the parent society but concentrated specifically in Europe and Africa.<BR>
The Biobankung: European-African Chapter will organize frequent and reasonably priced conferences and meetings, workshops and courses for the whole European and African biobanking community, including representatives of all kinds of biobank for human as well as non-human samples. <BR>
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You are cordially invited to join our LinkedIn discussion group, to help plan this new initiative. The name of the discussion group is: <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><B>Biobanking:European Chapter Interest Group</B></FONT> (Go to: Groups, then Groups Directory, Then search on the keyword ³Biobanking²). So far we have more than 170 members, which is encouraging for just 1 week! If you are not yet a member of LinkedIn, then you would first need to register at www.linkedin.com <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.linkedin.com">http://www.linkedin.com</a></U></FONT>> . It is a very simple process and completely free.<BR>
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Your active involvement in this new chapter would be greatly appreciated.If you have any questions please contact either myself (<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="p.deblasio@biorep.it">p.deblasio@biorep.it</a></U></FONT>). or Rober Hewitt (<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="hewitt.r@sfr.fr">hewitt.r@sfr.fr</a></U></FONT>)<BR>
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Ciao,<BR>
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Pasquale<BR>
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Ing. Pasquale De Blasio<BR>
Managing Director<BR>
BioRep s.r.l.<BR>
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