5C: Tools and processes for quality implementation and use cases

This session focuses on practical tools, methodologies and processes that strengthen quality management systems aligned with international standards such as ISO 20387. Experts will demonstrate how interlaboratory comparisons, proficiency testing and validation strategies strengthen reproducibility and data confidence. Attendees will gain hands-on insights into overcoming pitfalls, implementing quality controls and ensuring sample and data integrity across the biobanking lifecycle.

Speakers included in this session:

• Lavinia Curini – Flow cytometry–based quality assessment of serum and plasma for biobanking

• Sven Heiling – Closing the gap: Proficiency tests identify cryotube sealing deficits across biobanks

• Adami Valentina – HarmoNICo – Omics interlaboratory testing for the BBMRI.it_-NICo Network_

• Chiel de Theije – BBMRI.nl initiative to measure temperature variation within ULT freezers in Dutch biobanks

• Maike Tauchert – Paving the way for accreditation: The BBMRI-ERIC audit programme

This session will be chaired by Pasquale De Blasio, MBA and Dr. Fatima Qafoud.