On March 15th-18th, 2016, SCRC Director Gan Rongxing was appointed as a member of BBMRI-ERIC（The Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure-European Research Infrastructure Consortium ）International Advisory Committee and attended “ADOPT BBMRI-ERIC” International Evaluation Conference in Valletta, Malta.

 

                  

 

    Eighteen Member States and one International Organization have joined forces in establishing BBMRI-ERIC, which is one of the largest health Research Infrastructures in Europe today. BBMRI-ERIC primarily aims at establishing, operating, and developing a pan-European distributed research infrastructure of biobanks and biomolecular resources. This will facilitate the access to biological resources as well as biomedical facilities and support high-quality biomolecular and medical research. The ADOPT BBMRI-ERIC proposal aims at boosting and accelerating implementation of BBMRI-ERIC and its services. Its main deliverables are designed to complete or launch the construction of key Common Services of the Research Infrastructure as required for ESFRI-projects "under implementation", reflecting the targets of the European Research Area (ERA). 

    The “ADOPT BBMRI-ERIC” International Evaluation Conference aimed to carry out a rigorous assessment of the progress of the work carried out in a year and a half, and put forward suggestions and opinions. SCRC Director Gan Rongxing, as the first expert of BBMRI-ERIC from China, shared thoughts with attendees on how to build biobanks with unified standards and an information sharing system with focus on high quality biosamples and data, which will better serve new drug development and translational research in the future. 

    SCRC is willing to establish broad cooperation with internationally famed organizations or society, such as BBMRI-ERIC, learn from the international experience and promote the biobank development in China.