#EBW26 Previews: 11D: Eco-friendly green biobanking: Innovations and solutions
This session explores eco-friendly biobanking innovations and circular economy approaches addressing sustainability beyond financial viability. Amid rising energy costs and the climate crisis, we’ll showcase impact assessments and solutions that reduce environmental footprints, promoting greener, more resilient biobanks for the future of research and public health.
Speakers included in this session:
- Hélène Blanché – Embedding environmental responsibility in biobank governance: The CEPH-Biobank experience
- Sabrina Kral – Learnings from the Green Biobanking Survey of BBMRI.at biobanks
- Hannah van der Stok – Towards sustainable biobanking: The impact of ultra-low storage temperature on sample quality and energy consumption
- Hilde Laeremans – Greener biobanking beyond temperature adjustment
- Aram de Haas – Sustainable cold storage transformation: Achieving over 500,000 kWh annual savings through strategic choices at Amsterdam UMC
This session will be chaired by:
Dr. Carlo Largiadèr
Carlo R. Largiadèr, PhD, is Associate Professor of Pharmacogenetics at the University of Bern and Inselspital and is President of Swiss Biobanking. He serves as Deputy Director of the Department of Clinical Chemistry and Center for Laboratory Medicine at Inselspital, and directs Liquid Biobank Bern.
Erik Steinfelder
Erik Steinfelder is currently the SVP of Commercial Sales and Operations at eMolecules, a company focusing on reducing early drug discovery timelines. Previously Erik had several commercial roles within Thermo Fisher Scientific. Between 2017 and 2020, Erik was Director-General of BBMRI-ERIC. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Analytical Chemistry.
Session details:
- Date: Friday 22 May
- Time: 12:00 – 13:30