Zhou Hongkang, Wu Xiuyu, Zeng Leping, Yan Xiaoxin, Tian Wei, Xiong Kun, Huang Jufang
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Department of Immunology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Biopreserv Biobank. 2020 Feb;18(1):10-13. doi: 10.1089/bio.2019.0104.
In the past 10 years, clinical biobanks have experienced increasing expansion in China. Demand for systematically educated biobanking professionals is a priority for Chinese biobanks' agenda. The cryobiology and biobankology course is the first semester-long course in China, designed and developed at Central South University with international cooperation. Leading professors were from China, the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada to teach the latest version of biobanking knowledge and skills around the globe. This course is a comprehensive elective course with six specific teaching modules, which is suitable for graduate students majoring in basic medical sciences, clinical medicine, life sciences, mechanical engineering, and biomedical engineering, who would like to seek biobanking careers in the future. Participants from China, Czech Republic, Ghana, Madagascar, Tanzania, South Sudan, and Israel attended the course. Through taking this course, students can broaden their international academic horizons and cultivate the ability to learn and apply the knowledge of biology, medicine, and engineering to analyze and explain the low-temperature biology and clinical samples-based research practice. At the same time, the course enables students to realize the importance of multidisciplinary fields of biobanking and the significance of innovative precision medicine research, and further enlightens students' enthusiasm to pursue biobanking professional careers, and in the future they can proudly call themselves "biobankers."
在过去十年中，临床生物样本库在中国经历了不断的扩张。对经过系统培训的生物样本库专业人员的需求是中国生物样本库议程的首要任务。低温生物学与生物样本库学课程是中国首个为期一学期的课程，由中南大学在国际合作下设计开发。顶尖教授来自中国、美国、英国和加拿大，讲授全球最新版的生物样本库知识与技能。本课程是一门综合选修课，有六个特定的教学模块，适合基础医学、临床医学、生命科学、机械工程和生物医学工程专业的研究生，他们未来希望从事生物样本库相关职业。来自中国、捷克共和国、加纳、马达加斯加、坦桑尼亚、南苏丹和以色列的学员参加了该课程。通过学习本课程，学生可以拓宽国际学术视野，培养运用生物学、医学和工程学知识进行分析和解释低温生物学及基于临床样本的研究实践的能力。同时，该课程使学生认识到生物样本库多学科领域的重要性以及创新精准医学研究的意义，进一步激发学生追求生物样本库职业的热情，未来他们可以自豪地称自己为“生物样本库工作者”。
