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The growing complexity of biobanking requires dedicated professional staff who are literate with the multiple aspects of the biobanking process, including technical, managerial, regulatory, and ethical aspects, and who have a good understanding of the challenges of biospecimen research. Here we describe the structure and achievements of a systematic 2-year training program at the Master’s level intended for students with a background in life sciences and providing them with a professional qualification as a “Biobank Manager”. This course was initiated in 2010 as a program of the Catholic University of Lyon (France). The multidisciplinary training program includes courses on biobank design and infrastructure, on pre- and post-analytical biospecimen processing, on protocol development, on ethical and regulatory aspects as well as a primer to epidemiology, high-throughput molecular biology, and translational research. In parallel, students also receive generic training in management, budget planning, data analysis, and statistics, as well as 11 months of hands-on internship training in biobanks handling human, animal, plant, or microbial biospecimens. A total of 81 students have graduated since 2012, all of whom found a job within 6 months of graduation.
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Lawrence, P., Hardy, I., Caboux, E., di Donato, J.H., Hainaut, P., Gormally, E. (2021). Ten Years of Experience in Training Biobank Managers at Master’s Level in France. In: Hainaut, P., Vaught, J., Zatloukal, K., Pasterk, M. (eds) Biobanking of Human Biospecimens. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55901-4_8
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