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PODCAST: This Week's Interview (November 19, 2009)

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INTERVIEW: (BIO) BANKING IN LUXEMBOURG - Interview with Robert Hewitt, Ph.D., CEO, Integrated Biobank of Luxembourg, and European Editor, Biopreservation and Biobanking (published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.)

Many people associate Luxembourg with the banking industry, i.e., local and global financial institutions. However, that small country located in Northwest Europe recently embarked upon something completely different—the establishment of a biobank. The independent and not-for-profit Integrated Biobank of Luxembourg (IBBL) plans to collect, store, analyze, and redistribute biospecimens while preserving the confidentiality of the donor's data. How the IBBL plans to do this is the subject of today’s podcast.

During this GEN podcast, Dr. Robert Hewitt talks about the rationale for creating the biobank and the path his team took in setting its goals. He discusses what Luxembourg has to offer in terms of biotechnology expertise and gives us the specifics about his plans for gaining increasing international recognition for the IBBL.

Dr. Hewitt also goes into the role played by the Phoenix, Arizona-based Translational Genomics in encouraging the formation of IBBL and explains the nature of IBBL’s collaborative research arrangements with Dr. Leroy Hood from the Institute of Systems of Biology in Seattle and Dr. Leland Hartwell of the Partnership for Personalized Medicine in Phoenix.

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