Biobanks in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Relevance, Setup and Management

1. Introduction
1.1. Literature Review1.1.1. Definition of biobanks1.1.2. Problems and the destitution for principle1.2 Scientific relevance of biobanks. Examples of biobanks1.2.1. Types of biobanks1.3. Ethical and legal principles1.4. Biobank management model and sustainability plan 1.4.1. SWOT analysis1.4.2. The mission1.5. Concepts specific for developing countries2. Methods2.1. Questionnaire: Survey development and content, participant selection2.2. Interviews: market analysis2.3. Team meetings: Development and implementation3. Results and summary of findings3.1. Step I: Ethics and law in the Ukraine Biobank3.1.1. Ethical regulations3.1.2. Access Policy3.2. Step II: Collection and Management of Samples3.2.1. Clarification of Conditions of Shipment of Samples3.2.2. Clinical Collection3.3. Step III: Risk Management and Biobanking3.4. Step IV: Quality Management and Quality Control. Quality Control Samples and SOP`s3.4.1. Quality Control Samples and SOP3.5. Step V: Governance and Stakeholder analysis3.6. Biobanking IT system3.6.1. Data base structure3.6.2. Web application3.7. Ukraine Biobank management model and sustainability plan3.7.1. Ukraine Biobank management model3.7.2. Sustainability plan and Project management3.8. Established Biobank in Ukraine Association3.9. Development and Progress of Ukraine's Biobank Network3.10. The way to standardization3.11. Sample Access Policy3.12. Science and Innovation of Ukraine Association of Biobank4. Discussion5. Conclusion 6. List of figures7. References8. Internet Sources 

Prof. h. c. Karine Sargsyan, MD was born in Armenia and lives in Graz. She is Managing Director for International Biobanking and Education at the Medical University of Graz and Vice Scientific Leader and Lecturer of the course M.Sc. Biobanking and of Human Centred Artificial Intelligence in Medicine at Medical University of Graz. Due to her professional experience, she is a leading member of many scientific organisations such as the ISBER (International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories), the ESBB (European, Middle Eastern & African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking), etc. She provides scientific expertise and experience as a consultant/advisory board member to several institutional organisations (BBMRI.pl, Oncology Research Vietnam, Qatar Biobank, DLR, Ministry of Health of Armenia, NMRRC Russia, etc.).  She is a Visiting Professor of Medical Genetics at Yerevan State Medical University, where she also completed her MD in paediatrics. In her free time, she enjoys painting (three exhibitions), playing the piano and happily commits herself to various voluntary activities. 






Prof. Dr. Berthold Huppertz is a German biologist with more than 25 years experience in the medical field. Berthold is chair of a preclinical division as well as Head of the Master course in Biobanking at Medical University of Graz, Austria. For seven years he was Director of Biobank Graz, the largest clinical biobank in Europe. Berthold has published more than 230 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as more than 40 book chapters in scientific and teaching books. With his biological, medical and biobanking background, he loved to work on this book.




Dr. Gramatiuk Svetlana, MD, PhD, is a graduate of the National Medical University of Kharkiv. She studied Biobanking at the Medical University of Graz, Austria, and Infectious Diseases Medicine and Virology, Microbiology and Allergology at