Manuel Morente is a specialist in Pathology who has worked for 15 years as both a surgical pathologist at the Hospital General Universitario de Guadalajara (Spain) and Associate Professor at the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. He was appointed as the Head of the Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO) Tumour Bank Unit (www.cnio.es) in 2001 and since 2009 he has been Coordinator of the Spanish National Biobank Network (www.redbiobancos.es) a nationwide network including more than 60 biobanks, called to be the Spanish Scientific component of BBMRI-ERIC. He is member of the Spanish National Institute of Health Ethics Committee, Acting President of CNIO’s Committee for Research Integrity & Professional Conduct, and Director of the 1st University Master on Biobanking in Spain (UCV, Valencia). He is an active participant in a number of biobanking organisations and societies including BBMRI, ISBER, ESBB, Marble Arch Working Group, European Human Frozen Tumour Tissue Bank (TuBaFrosT), and the Tumour Bank Program of the Spanish Cancer Centres Network, and he actively promotes biobank networks throughout Europe and Latin America.
