[Setting up indicators in biobanking: why and how?].

The biobanking area is highly complex, and its complexity is increasing along with its growth and demand. Due to the advancements in genetic research, stem cell research and regenerative medicine, biobanking has become ever more important and plays a key role in biomedical research. The robustness and the reproducibility of research results depend greatly on the quality and on the number of the samples used, and thus on the expertise of biobanks having supplied these samples.

[The Nice CHU biobank experience to collect patients' informed consent for research context (2004-2009)].

Over the last 10 years, significant financial support from the French National Institute of Cancer (INCa), the Ministry of Health (DGOS), and the Health and Research National Institute (Inserm) helped biobanks--of which tumour banks represent a prominent example of hospital-based infrastructures--to improve their operations, and in some instances to adopt the rules of Biological Ressource Centers as defined by OECD. Nowadays, the use of biological samples of human origin is strictly subordinated to regulations that integrate bioethical principles. However, in spite of the establishment of these regulations, requirement to obtain an authorisation and/or to register the biological collections with the Ministry of Research, many uncertainties persist.