This Japanese translation will make the Best Practices 5th Edition more accessible to professionals worldwide and is a testament to the dynamic worldwide growth of the biorepository field.
“The Best Practices 5th Edition was significantly revised in content and structure, based on ideas emanating from users’ feedback on the previous edition,” said Dr. Dayong Gao, President of ISBER. “The Japanese translation of the ISBER Best Practices is very valuable and especially helpful for the Japanese-speaking biobanking community for the management of biological and environmental specimen repositories, covering either evidence-based or consensus-based practices for collection, processing, long-term preservation, retrieval and distribution of the specimens and their information.”
“I am very pleased that the latest ISBER Best Practices is available in Japanese and will have wider reach to our Japanese colleagues,” said Dr. Wayne Ng, ISBER Director-At-Large of the Indo-Pacific Rim region. “ISBER looks forward to offering the Best Practices in more languages in the future to support wider non-English speaking biobanking communities.”
“Twenty eight experts and four supervisors worked together to ensure that the translation is accurate and easy to be understand,” said Dr. Kazuyuki Matsushita, team lead of the Japanese translation team.
ISBER would like to thank the dedicated Japanese colleagues for their involvement in the translation of this publication, with special acknowledgement of Dr. Kazuyuki Matsushita, Dr. Hiroaki Onishi, Dr. Tatsuaki Tsuruyama, and Dr. Koh Furuta.
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