The NCRI Confederation of Cancer Biobanks held a successful workshop on Quality Matters: A workshop for biobankers at the Wellcome Trust in London.

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Please click on the following presentation titles to view the speaker’s slides.
Links are also provided to the websites of the organisations represented by each speaker.

Day 1
Session 1: Biobanking and the legal framework
Introduction	Brian Clark, onCore UK
Licensing of research tissue banks by the HTA	Christiane Niederlaender, Human Tissue Authority
The HTA and me	Dr Alison Parry-Jones, Wales Cancer Bank
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Session 2: Quality management in biobanking
Quality systems for research tissue banks	Anne Carter, onCore UK
ISO standards for research tissue banking	Fay Betsou, Biobanque de Picardie
Accessing materials held in research tissue banks	David Levison, Tayside Tissue Bank
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Session 3: Data management systems
Design principles for a data storage/management system	Daniel Naeh, Wales Cancer Bank
Secure data integration	Richard Sinnott, National e-Science Centre, University of Glasgow
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Day 2
Session 4: Tissue collection – formalin and beyond
Introduction	Malcolm Mason, Wales Cancer Bank
The Alternatives: The Evidence Base	Jane Hair, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Biobank Services
Galvanizing fixation	Gordon Stamp, Imperial College London and Cancer Research UK London Research Institute
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Session 5: Quality assurance in pathology - what should we record?
Maintaining consistency of immunochemistry: the effect of speed on tissue preservation	Chris Womack, AstraZeneca
Quality metrics of tissue beyond histology	Stephen Hewitt, National Cancer Institute, USA
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Session 6: RNA and DNA quality
DNA QA prior to use in array based technologies	Kristian Unger, Imperial College London
RNA QA - how low can you go?	Gerry Thomas, Wales Cancer Bank and Imperial College London
Issues with tissues in proteomic studies	Roz Banks, Cancer Research UK Clinical Centre, Leeds
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