Gareth Bicknell BSc, PhD

Dr Bicknell managed a human tissue-processing facility at the University of Leicester, reconfiguring its voluntary MHRA accreditation into an HTA licence for Human Application. In 2006/2007 he also assisted the HTA perform its first round of inspections. In 2011 he moved into quality/general management at the University of Oxford’s licensed musculoskeletal biobank, and in 2015 he became Operations Manager at the University of Birmingham’s HBRC. Currently he oversees a team ensuring that 4500 samples/month are handled efficiently, securely, confidentially, and with quality assurance. Since 2016, he has actively contributed to the new ISO 20387 standard for biobanking.