Clare Allocca is Senior Advisor for Standardization in the Standards Coordination Office at the US National Institute of Standards & Technology.

As an expert of ISO/TC276/ WG2* Biobanking & bioresources, she co-authored ISO 20387:2018 Biotechnology - Biobanking – General requirements for biobanking, and ISO/TR* 22758:2020 Biotechnology - Biobanking - Implementation guide for ISO 20387, and contributed to multiple other standards and related documents. 

Dr. Lara Mouttham is the Assistant Director of Biobank Laboratory Services at the Cornell Veterinary Biobank.

She obtained a PhD in Zoology and Wildlife Conservation from Cornell University in 2016 in collaboration with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute as part of the Cornell-Smithsonian Joint Training Program for her work on primordial follicle activation and ovarian tissue cryopreservation in cattle and domestic cats.

Cassandra manages NSW Regional Biospecimen and Research Services at the University of Newcastle, NSW. She has held this position since early 2018 and has contributed to the growth and diversification of the Hunter Cancer Biobank and Mark Hughes Foundation Brain Bank with support from NSW Health Pathology, and Hunter Medical Research Institute. 

Cassandra has been a member of the ABNA Management Committee for 4 years and is the current ABNA President.