Ronny Baber Biobanking - Blue Sky Horizons (ABNA 19th Annual Conference)

Ronny Baber

Dr. Ronny Baber works in the Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry, and Molecular Diagnostics at the University Hospital Leipzig. He is the head of the Leipzig Medical Biobank and the Preanalytical laboratory in the Leipzig Research Center for Civilisation Diseases (LIFE). Dr. Baber is a member of the working group in the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) which supports the ISO TC 276 responsible for ISO 20387 on biobanking and other related standards and BBMRI­ERIC workgroups for the evaluation of CEN standards. He is a voted member of the Steering Committee of the "German Biobank Alliance" (GBA) with responsibilities for stakeholder management and part of different working groups in the GBA (e.g. Education, Stakeholder, Quality, Industry Collaboration). Since September 2017 he is designated as part of the Executive Board of the European, Middle Eastern & African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking (ESBB). In 2020 he also joined the Ethics Committee at the Medical Faculty of the University Leipzig.