The Academic team

Elodie Long Mira, Program Director, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor

Modern biobanks require some new generation of biobankers to assimilate a variety of aspects on how using bioresources for research projects. Thus, in addition to the essential management of the pre analytical steps from collecting the samples to the stockage and securisation, the development of new technologies, such as next generation sequencing from tissue and liquid biopsies for example, the use of multiplexing immunochemical techniques, of proteomics and of metabolomics have lead biobankers to become expert in many different domains. These domains include various area of the biology, but also knowledge in legal and ethic issues when using samples for research, in biobankonomics for getting a sustainable business model, in security for the protection of the health care workers, in bioinformatic and statistical analysis and in big data evaluation. So the MSc Biobanks and Complex Data Management provides a unique educational training in the World, thanks to a strong team of experts and some well known international teachers coming from many countries from Europe and from USA and Canada. It is a real honour for us to have such a great number of expert teachers and a chance for our students.

Currently, there are only few opportunities around the world for postgraduate master education in Biobanking with academic courses teaching all technical, scientific and legal/ethical aspects of human and environmental biobanking.

The high-level training of the professional master's degree in "Biobanks and Complex Data Management" Professional Master opens immediate career opportunities with high responsibility in a variety of sectors such as of human health, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industrial laboratories, and agricultural industry. Thanks to this training of excellence, the students of our MSc will be the future managers of the next generation biobanks, integrating French, European or international companies.