European, Middle Eastern, and African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking (ESBB). 2012 Conference Session on Biobanking in Emerging Countries

The European, Middle Eastern and African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking (ESBB) held its second annual conference in Granada, Spain, in 2012. The Society was created to focus on issues of biobanking in the countries of its regional focus. This year, ESBB dedicated two sessions to the issues of Biobanking in Emerging Countries, focusing on countries of the Middle East and Africa. The sessions addressed Progressive Approaches and Inspirational Examples together with Challenges and Opportunities in emerging countries. Here we present a review of the presentations included in these sessions and the discussions that these presentations solicited from the ESBB audience.