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1 Editor, Biopreservation & Biobanking, and President-elect, International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories, Rockville, MD; vaughtj@mail.nih.gov.
2 Chief Pathologist and Head, Division of Haematology, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa;
3 Deputy CEO, UK Biobank, Adswood, Stockport, UK;
4 Professor, Department of Pathology, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada;
5 Project Manager, Office of Biobank Education and Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia-Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada, and Deeley Research Centre, Victoria, BC, Canada;
6 Chief, Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research Branch, Cancer Diagnosis Program, US National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD.
1 Editor, Biopreservation & Biobanking, and President-elect, International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories, Rockville, MD; vaughtj@mail.nih.gov.
2 Chief Pathologist and Head, Division of Haematology, University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa;
3 Deputy CEO, UK Biobank, Adswood, Stockport, UK;
4 Professor, Department of Pathology, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada;
5 Project Manager, Office of Biobank Education and Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia-Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada, and Deeley Research Centre, Victoria, BC, Canada;
6 Chief, Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research Branch, Cancer Diagnosis Program, US National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD.