title: [Establishing and operating a human biobank. Ethical aspects].
abstract: Particularly in the past decade which has been marked by efforts to foster individualized/personalized medicine the need for well-characterized high-quality collections of human biological material has significantly increased. When establishing and operating a human biobank the interests and the "freedom" of biomedical research must always be weighed against the interests and rights of patients and/or donors; in this process ethical aspects should be considered systematically. In addition, the importance of quality control and quality assurance has largely increased in human biobanking, both from a scientific and even more from an ethical point of view, because donated biological materials are potentially stored for decades and (on request) might serve for currently not foreseeable biomedical research purposes. In addition, the compatibility of national human biobanks with international biobank networks becomes increasingly important.
authors.affiliation: Interdisziplinäre Biomaterial- und Datenbank Würzburg (ibdw), Universitätsmedizin Würzburg, Gebäude A8/A9, Straubmühlweg 2a, 97080, Würzburg, Deutschland. jahns_r@ukw.de.
authors.forename: Roland
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jahns
mesh_terms: D018070:Biological Specimen Banks / Q000941:ethics*; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000941:ethics*; D016494:Computer Security / Q000941:ethics; D003219:Confidentiality / Q000941:ethics*; D005858:Germany; D006805:Human Experimentation / Q000941:ethics; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000941:ethics*; D038622:Internationality; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000941:ethics*; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement / Q000941:ethics*
keywords: Data protection; Donor consent; Donor privacy protection; Ethics; Pseudonymization