Loes Linsen is a Master in Biotechnology and obtained a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from Hasselt University. Loes entered the biobank world in 2008. She became biobank manager of the University Biobank Limburg (UBiLim), where she set up the organizational structure (a collaboration of 3 independent institutions with a biobank facility on each site), including the ethical/legal procedural framework, integration of the quality management system into ISO15189 accreditation and implementation of the Biobank Information Management System Lab vantage. In that period, she participated in the European FP6 project “Cancer Control using Population-based Registries and Biobanks”. Loes also contributed to the setup of the Flemish Biobank, including auditing for the regional biobank audit programme. Since 2016 Loes is a staff member of the Biobank University Hospitals Leuven, where she continues to facilitate all things biobanking from a (biospecimen) quality-oriented perspective. Loes is a member of ESBB, ISBER and the ISBER biospecimen research workgroup, as well as several expert working groups of bbmri-eric and bbmri.be.
