GDPR Requirements for Biobanking Activities Across Europe

The book deals with the effective operation of the rules related to biomedical research and pays attention to the activities of the national legislatures of the 27 Member States in the field of scientific research. This multilevel system has an impact on biobanking activity. The book answers questions realized by operators on the main biobanks around the EU in the field of GDPR. The authors and editors used the questions born from brainstorming among members of the Association European, Middle East & Africa for Biopreservation and Biobanking (ESBB) to offer to the operators in biobanking activity and researchers quickly answer to their daily questions, but with authors highest quality. Further the book provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly expanding field of biobanking. It provides researchers and scholars working on biobanking and bio-sharing and more in general in the university hospitals and clinical trial consortiums, and companies, biomedical researchers, but also jurists and the professionals (in particular judges, lawyers, officers) an instrument rigorous but easy to use of the GDPR in the case of biobanking activities. The book identifies a methodological path to tackle the legal or ethical problem on a specific scientific-technological to verify existing solutions and give ideas for future applications. The importance of the legal solution influences the implementation of the development of the biobanking activity service itself.

Valentina Colcelli (PhD) is a Senior Researcher at Italian National Research Council (CNR). Department CNR_IFAC. She published books concerning EU integration and more than 80 papers. She is a member of several projects funded by the EU and long-lasting international research cooperation, like the H2020 and Horizon Europe. She is Independent Ethics Advisors for European Cancer Imaging Initiative (EUCAIM project, funded under the DIGITAL program,18 MIO EU co-funding), one of the flagships of the Europe's Beating Cancer Plan (EBCP). Expert for European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation/Infrastructures _ ERIC. She is Visiting External examiner at the University of Malta, and Professor of “Law, Science and Technology” at Escuela Judicial del Poder Judicial del Estado de Oaxaca –México (Maestría en Derecho Judicial). She is co-chair of the Working Group “Regulatory, Ethics, and GDPR” for the Scientific Association “European, Middle East &African for Biopreservation and Biobanking" (ESBB) and member of the ESBB Council.

Roberto Cippitani is Jean Monnet Chairholder at the Department of Law, Università degli Studi di Perugia; Co-Director of the Chair ISAAC (Individual Rights, Scientific Research and Cooperation in Europe and in the World) at UNED - Universidad Nacional a Distancia (Madrid); Professor at INDEPAC - Instituto Nacional de Estudios Superiores en Derecho Penal (Mexico) and at the Escuela Judicial del Poder Judicial del Estado de Oaxaca (Mexico); former Academic Coordinator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence “Rights and Science” in the University of Perugia; Associated Researcher at CNR-IFAC. Responsible, staff member, and ethics advisor of projects funded under EU programs. He is visiting professor at several universities in Europe, Latin America and China. 

Christoph Brochhausen, MD, Full Professor. Clinical Head of the Institute of Pathology and holds the Chair of Pathology at the Medical Faculty Mannheim of the University Heidelberg. He is council member and co-chair of the European, Middle Eastern and African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking -Working group “Regulatory, Ethics & GDPR“. He is specialized in orthopaedic-, respiratory- and cardio-vascular pathology. His research is focused on Digital Pathology, Cryotechnology, Precision Medicine, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine as well as ELSI in Biobanking. Christoph Brochhausen coordinates BRoTHER, a Bavarian-Czech research network in biobanking and eduBRoTHER an EU-funded, transdisciplinary and international education program on Precision Medicine and Biobanking. He is awarded with the Michalis lecture, Trinity College Cambridge (UK, 2008), the Best Paper Award of the European Society of Biomaterials (2009), the “Land of Ideas "award from the German Government (2012), the Histalim biotechnology Award (France, 2015) and the “Ars legendi award“ of the German Medical Faculty Day (2015). Christoph Brochhausen has written more than 180 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals, 18 book contributions and two books. Citations: ^3000, H-index: 34.

Rainer Arnold, Dr. Dr.h.c. mult., Professor at the University of Regensburg, in 1978 appointed holder of the Chair of Public Law, in 1999 nominated holder of the Jean Monnet Chair of EU Law and in 2008 holder of the Jean Monnet Chair ad personam “Legal Relations of the EU with Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe“. Nominated in 2000 hostujíci professor at the Charles University Prague. Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna, Membre titulaire de l’Académie international de droit comparé, Fellow of the European Law Institute. In 2008 (3 months) Fernand Braudel Fellow and various times Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute, Fiesole/Florence, former Visiting Professor at the University Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), Strasbourg, Toulouse, Aix-en-Provence, Roma La Sapienza, Bologna, Trento, and other. Organization of twenty-three International Congresses on European and Comparative Constitutional Law, co-organized with the Constitutional Courts of Moldova in 2017 (Kishinau) and of Lithuania in Oct. 2019 (Vilnius), with the University of Gdansk in 2018 and with the World Law Association in Febr. 2019 (Madrid) and in July 2023 (New York).