{"id":593,"date":"2018-04-04T12:04:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T10:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/h3a.cbio.uct.ac.za\/?page_id=593"},"modified":"2022-06-10T12:07:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T10:07:30","slug":"biorepository-users","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/consortium\/working-groups\/biorepository-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Biorepository Working Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1539674375728{margin-top: 35px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1610018157009{margin-top: 36px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3>Biorepository Working Group<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<div class=\"team team_vertical\"><div class=\"image_frame photo no_link scale-with-grid\"><div class=\"image_wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"scale-with-grid\" src=\"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/moses_sm.png\" alt=\"Moses Joloba\" width=\"150\" height=\"160\"\/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"desc_wrapper\"><h4>Moses Joloba<\/h4><hr class=\"hr_color\" \/><div class=\"desc\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<div class=\"team team_vertical\"><div class=\"image_frame photo no_link scale-with-grid\"><div class=\"image_wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"scale-with-grid\" src=\"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/mayne.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Mayne\" width=\"181\" height=\"160\"\/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"desc_wrapper\"><h4>Elizabeth Mayne<\/h4><hr class=\"hr_color\" \/><div class=\"desc\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n[\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_accordion style=&#8221;outline&#8221; color=&#8221;juicy-pink&#8221; active_section=&#8221;1&#8243;][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Terms of reference&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1610018035482-2a937efe-f926&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h5>Purpose<\/h5>\n<p>The Biorepositories users working group (WG) was developed as a way to facilitate the exchange of biobanking information and best practices across the Consortium. It was suggested that the issues that this WG could pursue include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Systematic ascertainment of the biobanking plans for each H3Africa research project and collaborative center.<\/li>\n<li>Specific needs for specialized biobanking tools, such as standardized SOPs, material transfer agreements (MTAs), commercial shipping procedures, harmonized consent language for biospecimen collection and release, and data management practices.<\/li>\n<li>Collection and distribution of information about policies, regulations or laws governing the acquisition, transfer, and release of biospecimens in the participating H3Africa countries, to help inform the adaptation of procedures to local conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Providing feedback and assistance to the Biorepository teams in the development of a harmonized biospecimen release policy .<\/li>\n<li>The funded biorepositories will also have a sub-working group of this group or a separate working to discuss collaboration across the biorepositories and other details of building and running biorepositories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=&#8221;Meeting Minutes&#8221; tab_id=&#8221;1610018035483-6c9bb778-46fe&#8221;][vc_basic_grid post_type=&#8221;page&#8221; max_items=&#8221;-1&#8243; gap=&#8221;15&#8243; item=&#8221;1019&#8243; grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1654855103440-7f7b4130567058f0b6dace8aad1db6d2-5&#8243; taxonomies=&#8221;134, 135, 136, 137, 162, 171, 173&#8243;][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_accordion][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1539674375728{margin-top: 35px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1610018157009{margin-top: 36px !important;}&#8221;] Biorepository Working Group<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":89,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,101],"tags":[172],"class_list":["post-593","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-user-resource","category-user-working-groups","tag-wg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12529,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/593\/revisions\/12529"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/h3africa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}