Upcoming Genetic Alliance Events

Webinar:

Marketing your Biobank Collection Effectively
October 11, 2012, 12 noon – 1 pm EDT

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If you build it, they will come… This strategy may have worked for Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams, but it will not produce a home run for biobank managers. Many organizations spend large amounts of time, effort, and resources building their sample collections, and limited resources are spent marketing these collections to researchers. Science will not advance if biospecimen collections sit unused in the freezer. But how do you get researchers to be aware of and use your biosamples? Join us, as we ask three experts to share their experiences about marketing their biobank collection and making samples available to researchers. Each panelist is involved with a different type of biobank (e.g. academic, government, and advocacy-driven) and offers a unique perspective about making their collection available.

Moderator: Liz Horn, PhD, MBI
Director, Genetic Alliance Registry & Biobank

Panelists:
Marianna Bledsoe, MA
Senior Program Manager for Biorepositories and Biobanking
Department of Veterans Affairs

Kathy Sexton, MBA
As. Director, Tissue Collection and Banking Facility
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Suzanne Vernon, PhD
Scientific Director
The CFIDS Association of America

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