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Implementation of Ethical and Legal Considerations in a Biobanking Network

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The first step in establishing a solid biobanking recourse is clearly to build a solid ethical and legal basis for the operation of each biobank and for a biobank association as a whole. In this chapter we discuss some general considerations on the topic, give some directions and how to and then show an installation process based on UAB. Over the last 5 years, the National Scientific Centre for Medical and Biotechnical Research was the main organization at the Commission on Bioethics at the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine that encouraged the formation of authorized requirements for the Ukrainian researchers to work with worldwide agreements with pharma and bioethics. One of the main prerequisites was the coordinated activity of the ethical commission at different levels in the Ukraine. To develop the intended unified national network of biobanks in the Ukraine, the UAB working group was required to submit several separate ethics applications as prerequisite for each participating hospital site and each member organization.

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  1. Institute of Cellular Biorehabilitation, Kharkiv, Ukraine

    Svetlana Gramatiuk & Mykola Alekseenko

  2. International Biobanking and Education, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Tanja Macheiner, Christine Mitchell & Karine Sargsyan

  3. Department of Medical Genetics, Yerevan State Medical University, Yerevan, Armenia

    Karine Sargsyan

  4. Ministry of Health of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

    Karine Sargsyan

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Gramatiuk, S., Alekseenko, M., Macheiner, T., Mitchell, C., Sargsyan, K. (2022). Implementation of Ethical and Legal Considerations in a Biobanking Network. 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_8

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