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Sustainability of Biobanks and Biobanking in LMICs

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

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Ensuring sustainability is the most important task of a biobank, because biobanks are very resource-intensive infrastructures with a long-term horizon. Only a sustainable biobank can make a significant contribution to research ongoing. However, many different factors must fit and interact to enable sustainability. In this chapter, the particular challenges of biobank sustainability and their biobanking activities with a special focus on LMICs will be discussed.

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Simeon-Dubach, D., Kozlakidis, Z. (2022). Sustainability of Biobanks and Biobanking in LMICs. In: Sargsyan, K., Huppertz, B., Gramatiuk, S. (eds) Biobanks in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Relevance, Setup and Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87637-1_26

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