ISBER 2025 Best Paper Award, Best Poster Award, and Outstanding New Product Award Recipients

ISBER is pleased to announce the 2025 Best Paper Award, Best Poster Award, and Outstanding New Product Award recipients! Join us in congratulating the award recipients below.

2025 Best Paper Award

The ISBER Best Paper Award in Biopreservation and Biobanking (“Best Paper Award”) recognizes a most impactful paper that was published in ISBER's official journal, Biopreservation and Biobanking (BIO), in the previous one year. The Best Paper Award Nomination Committee is composed of the BIO Editor-in-Chief, three Deputy Editors, the European Editor, the Asian Editor, and one Section Editor. Selection of the Best Paper Award is based on paper qualities including both originality/novelty of the research and its potential applications in biopreservation and biobanking fields, ranging from biobanking governance, operation, management, cryobiology, cryopreservation, cold chain, ethical/legal/social issues, to biospecimen science and quality control, etc. This award was created in 2022.

The 2025 recipient is:

Xin Li, Shuyong Zhang, Yuqi Zhang, and Xinli Zhou, "Visualization of Ice Crystal Behavior in Mouse Oocytes During High-Speed Quench Cooling and Ice Inhibition by Antifreezing Hydrogels", Volume 22, Number 4, 2024, DOI: 10.1089/bio.2023.0108.

Congratulations to Drs. Li, Zhang, and Zhou! Please click here to view the paper in BIO.

2025 Best Poster Award

The winner of this year's Best Poster Award is Poster PC-16 ZIMS - A Biobank Data Management Tool With Global Impacts for Species Conservation. This poster will be presented by Paula Mackie (Toronto Zoo) at the ISBER 2025 Annual Meeting.

Congratulations to Paula and her team! You can view this poster on-site in the poster area, or by signing on to the ISBER virtual platform.

Thank you to Azenta, the sponsor of this year's Poster Award!

2025 Outstanding New Product Award

Annually, ISBER awards the Outstanding New Product Award to highlight a new, innovative product in the biobanking field. A team of expert judges from diverse sectors select one product to receive the Outstanding New Product Award. 

This year, the New Product Award goes to Orcella Instruments for their product Orcella duo™ 1100S.

Please join us in congratulating Orcella Instruments! We invite you to visit them in the exhibit hall at the ISBER 2025 Annual Meeting to learn more about their product.

About Orcella

Orcella Instruments is a leading manufacturer of automated sample storage systems, specializing in the research, development, and production of fully automated biostorage solutions. Our systems span the full temperature spectrum—from +2 to +8 °C to ultra-low and cryogenic conditions—designed to support a wide range of sample formats and storage capacities.

Powered by advanced R&D and a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers, Orcella brings together deep expertise in cryopreservation, automation, and intelligent system design. With a strong commitment to quality and technological excellence, we provide comprehensive, end-to-end solutions for next-generation automated biostorage.

About the Orcella duo™ 1100S

 The Orcella duo™ 1100S is a next-generation, fully automated ultra-low temperature (ULT) storage system featuring Orcella’s proprietary dual-mode cooling technology. This advanced system integrates compressor-based and liquid nitrogen cooling, providing superior sample protection and effectively suppressing ice buildup.

Compact and plug-and-play, the Orcella duo™ 1100S combines cutting-edge automation, robust sample security, intelligent data management, and modular connectivity—making it an ideal solution for scalable, reliable and high performance ULT storage in advanced biobanking environments.