The Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR) will hold a two-day meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, on 13-14 November 2018 on the theme of “the ethics of data sharing and biobanking in health research”.

As part of the upcoming meeting, the GFBR is seeking case studies that bring attention to key ethical issues that have emerged when conducting data sharing and biobanking in LMIC settings and proposals to participate in a session on guidance and policy issues.

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One of the workshops at Uppsala Health Summit, “Biobanking for Global Cancer Care”, is devoted to the subject of building sustainable and locally managed biobanks in low-income countries. Find out more about the B3Africa project and the workshop being organized at the Uppsala Health Summit in this interview of Dr. Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Professor of Bioinformatics at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.