ISBER Partnerships - Forum for International Biobanking Organizations (FIBO)

ISBER has joined with a number of other organizations to form a small working group called the Forum for International Biobanking Organizations (FIBO).

FIBO's mission is to improve biomedical research by enhancing interactions among organizations involved in human biobanking at a global level by:

	Providing a communication forum to enhance information exchange and sharing of strategic goals among organizations with involvement in human biobanking at a global level.
	Facilitating the attainment of common goals with greater speed and efficiency.
	Providing the potential to provide a shared voice on specific issues that will present a more powerful vehicle to positively influence the field of biobanking and related academic and industrial arena.

FIBO Member organizations and representatives:

	Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI) (Kurt Zatloukal, Michaela Mayrhofer)
	International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) (Markus Pasterk, Pierre Hainaut)
	ISBER (Fay Betsou, Marianna Bledsoe, Peter Riegman, Robert Hewitt)
	Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research (OBBR) (Carolyn Compton, Jim Vaught)
	P3G (Isabel Fortier, Mylene Deschenes, Paul Burton)