High quality and secure storage and sharing of human biomaterials and the associated data in a national biobanking infrastructure will greatly facilitate personalized medicine and health research. This calls for a network of professionals from various disciplines that exchange expertise and learn from each other.
The community is committed to further develop the national biobanking infrastructure by mapping and linking Dutch biobanks, and by standardizing and harmonizing biomaterials and the associated data at a national and international level. The community will work in close collaboration with individual biobanks, researchers, national and international policymakers and funders, patients, and other stakeholders.
Health-RI Limburg will establish a regional network of biobanks and collections to inventorise the challenges to make the collections and biobanks FAIR. Furthermore, with the network we will investigate what type of infrastructure is needed to make these goals possible.
