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Steps are being taken to form a European, African and Middle East Chapter (or sub-division) of the biobanking society,<FONT COLOR="#1E487C"> </FONT>ISBER <FONT COLOR="#1E487C">(www.isber.org <</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.isber.org">http://www.isber.org</a></U></FONT><FONT COLOR="#1E487C">> ). </FONT>This chapter will provide all the services offered by the parent society but concentrated specifically in Europe. It will organize frequent and reasonably priced conferences and meetings, workshops and courses for the whole European, African and Middle East biobanking community, including representatives of all kinds of biobanks for human and non-human samples (including <FONT COLOR="#1E487C">Environmental Specimen Banks, </FONT>natural history museum collections, culture collections, etc.). It is proposed that the chapter will be led by a committee of individuals elected by the full membership of the chapter, each appointed for a fixed period of time.<BR>
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To ensure full involvement of the the European biobanking community from the earliest possible stage, a discussion group has been formed on LinkedIn, to which have subscribed 300 people in the last 3 weeks. The name of the group is: <B>Biobanking: European Chapter Interest Group. </B>You are cordially invited to join this interest group. <BR>
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</B>If you are a LinkedIn member, go to: Groups, then Groups Directory, then search on the keyword “Biobanking”. If you are not yet a member of LinkedIn, then you would first need to register as a member at<FONT COLOR="#1E487C"> </FONT>www.linkedin.com <<FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="http://www.linkedin.com">http://www.linkedin.com</a></U></FONT>> <FONT COLOR="#1E487C">. </FONT>It is a simple process and completely free. <BR>
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If there are any questions please contact either Robert Hewitt<FONT COLOR="#1E487C"> (</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="hewitt.r@sfr.fr">hewitt.r@sfr.fr</a></U></FONT><FONT COLOR="#1E487C">) </FONT>or Pasquale De Blasio<FONT COLOR="#1E487C"> (</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U><a href="p.deblasio@biorep.it">p.deblasio@biorep.it</a></U></FONT><FONT COLOR="#1E487C">). </FONT>Please feel free to pass this email on to colleagues in your own institution who may be interested.<BR>
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I look forward to see all of you at the next AfSHG meeting in Cape Town.<BR>
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Ciao<BR>
Pasquale<BR>
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Ing. Pasquale De Blasio<BR>
Managing Director<BR>
BioRep s.r.l.<BR>
Via Fantoli 16/15<BR>
20138 Milano - Italy<BR>
Tel. +39.0258029765<BR>
Fax: +39.0258018471<BR>
Cell: +39.3398483610<BR>
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E.mail: <a href="p.deblasio@biorep.it">p.deblasio@biorep.it</a><BR>
Web page: www.biorep.it <BR>
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