The European Bank for Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (EBiSC): Opportunities & Challenges Through Public-Private Collaboration
The European Bank for Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (EBiSC): Opportunities & Challenges Through Public-Private Collaboration

Summary/Abstract: The European Bank for induced Pluripotent Stem Cells is a global iPSC researchresource designed to overcome inadequacies in iPSC research and banking services inorder to make a diverse collection of quality-controlled iPS cell lines and genetic data easilyaccessible to researchers in Europe and worldwide. Opened to the public in 2016, EBiSCis a joint undertaking of the Innovative Medicines initiative of the European Commission,and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Institutes and Associations (EFPIA),in collaboration with a consortium of international experts from the iPSC community inacademia, government and business. The paper identifies opportunities for this largescaleresource through collaboration across the public and private sectors, and highlightschallenges encountered during its establishment with regard to cell line provenance,a multiplicity of actors and interests, intellectual property rights restrictions, ownershipof banked material, and management of access to genetic data.

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