ISBER Award Nominations

ISBER 2026 Award Nominations

Deadline: October 30, 2025

ISBER is pleased to accept nominations for the following three awards for 2026:

Outstanding Achievement in Biobanking Award
Leadership Award
Resilience in Biobanking Award (NEW)

Please see below for more information on the two awards and the nomination links.

2026 ISBER Outstanding Achievement in Biobanking AWARD Nominations

Submission Deadline: OCTOBER 30, 2025 at 8:59pm North America Pacific Time

The ISBER Outstanding Achievement in Biobanking Award is designed to recognize individuals who have made outstanding, indisputable contributions to the field of biobanking.

The award can be given for a single outstanding achievement or a life-time body of outstanding work in the field. Criteria to be considered include the nature, significance, and impact on the field of the outstanding achievement(s). The awardee being recognized should have made seminal, intellectual contributions that have had a wide-spread impact on the field of Biobanking.

Their contributions may include: advancing the science of biobanking, creating depth of knowledge, demonstrating world-class expertise, making remarkable discoveries, bringing the field into further prominence.

The recipient is not required to be an ISBER member.

Click here for information on past recipients.

2026 ISBER LEADERSHIP AWARD Nominations

Submission Deadline: OCTOBER 30, 2025 at 8:59pm North America Pacific Time

The ISBER Leadership Award is designed to honor ISBER members who have demonstrated exceptional leadership to further the mission and goals of the society and/or significant, long-standing contributions to the society. ISBER will recognize contributors who have played critical roles in developing and executing ISBER’s vision and mission.

Examples of ways an individual may have demonstrated exceptional leadership include: Advanced the ISBER mission, vision, and goals through the development of a key project/initiative; Has a history of longstanding meaningful contributions; Drove meaningful change that improved the association.

Throughout their tenure with the association and in particular as the task was being completed, the individual demonstrated: excellence, integrity, and performance beyond expectations for the benefit of ISBER.

The recipient must be an ISBER member.

Click here for information on past recipients.

2026 ISBER RESILIENCE IN BIOBANKING AWARD Nominations

Submission Deadline: OCTOBER 30, 2025 at 8:59pm North America Pacific Time

ISBER's new Resilience in Biobanking Award is designed to recognize a Repository Professional or Repository that is overcoming challenges and other logistical barriers to establish or expand a repository/collection; or to advance repository science as an evolving, essential discipline.

Challenges may present themselves in the form of infrastructure, topic domain, legal or institutional constraints, cultural norms, and similar. This recipient is a visionary, committed to facing these matters with a clear focus and functional plan.

The impact of awardees work will benefit the broader community through the downstream advances resulted from the collection or repository sciences.

The recipient may be an individual or a repository. The recipient is not required to be an ISBER member. Self-nominations are welcome.

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