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Pathfinder Biobanking Culture is linked to the study "Situational Diagnosis of the Biobanking Culture in the Scientific Community of Fundação Oswaldo Cruz", conducted collaboratively between the Fiocruz Biobank Network (RFBB), in Brazil, and two other teaching and research institutions in Peru: Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University (UPCH) and Scientific University of the South (UCSur).

The study aims to understand how researchers and professionals from the participating institutions practise the storage of human biological material and their knowledge about biobanking activities. To this end, it uses a computerised, self-administered questionnaire on the REDCap platform, addressing topics such as biological collections, biorepositories, sample sharing, storage of associated data, perception and knowledge about institutional policies, norms and international guidelines in biobanking.

The initiative stems from the recognition that biobanks have a strategic role in advancing biomedical research, particularly through their capacity to centralise, preserve and share human biological material and associated data under criteria of quality, biosafety and ethics, for use in future research. The study also seeks to identify barriers, needs and opportunities to strengthen the biobanking culture in the participating institutions.

The research integrates the activities of the Twinning Programme Fiocruz, UPCH and UCSur: equity in biobanking research, established in April 2024 within The Global Health Network Latin America and the Caribbean (TGHN LAC). Currently, its activities are also articulated with the Research Club on Biobanks of TGHN LAC.

Mind map of the Biobanking Culture Diagnostic Studies.

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Pathfinder

This project was supported by the Wellcome Trust (Grant 226688/Z/22/Z).

In this context, the use of the Pathfinder methodology emerges as an initiative aimed at prospective mapping of the research process, accompanying the conduct of the study from its methodological and operational structuring through to evidence generation. By systematising this experience, Pathfinder seeks to support the organisation and sustainability of collaborative research processes, favour the translation of data into evidence and provide evidence to support institutional strategies, capacity development actions and future initiatives of scientific cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Events

TGHN LAC Twinning Webinar Brazil - Peru (18 June 2025)

In the TGHN LAC Twinning Webinar Brazil, Dr Cinthia Hurtado (UPCH) presented the research proposal. The recording, available in Portuguese, English and Spanish, can be accessed between minutes 26' and 45'.