Biobanking Workshop 

Biobanking and Biological Sample Repositories – todays trends and future visions

BBMRI.se and the Nordic Biobanking Initiative

Prof. Jan-Eric Litton Director of BBMRI.se Dept. Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics,Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden   Jan-Eric Litton was appointed May 1, 2002 as computing professor in biomedical technology at the Karolinska Institutet.  He conducted postdoctoral studies in California where he, in addition to participation in clinical and technical research, began systematic research into new scintillatorers using the synchrotron at Stanford 1986-87. Jan-Eric Litton is one of the people behind Europe's first PET scanner. He has been one of the driving forces in the EU project GenomEUtwin where an infrastructure was built to link information between the 600 000 twins in seven European countries and Australia between 2002-2007. He led an infrastructure group in the 'EU Coordination Action; Harmonising population-based biobanks and cohort studies to Strengthen the foundation of European biomedical science in the post-genome era ", and has been involved in the management of P3G since 2004, he led IWG2 (Information Curation and Information Technology) in PG3 during 2004-2008. Jan-Eric is also one of the initiators of the Karolinska Institutet Biobank project and LifeGene, www.lifegene.se, where he was Deputy Director.  At present he is the director for bbmri.se