title: Establishment of the 1st European Tissue Bank and a vision of the future of tissue banking.
abstract: The paper offers a short history of the oldest European tissue bank, in cooperation with important international organizations and eduction authorities. The final part details the organization of development in research and clinical use by the bank in the field of human embryonal cells.
authors.affiliation: Regional Transplantation Centre of the Teaching Hospital Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Klen
mesh_terms: D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D014015:Tissue Banks / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends