A Report from a Workshop of the International Stem Cell Banking Initiative, Held in Collaboration of Global Alliance for iPSC Therapies and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Boston, 2017.

"Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest C.B. declared employment with Takara Bio Europe. J.F.L. is a member of the Merck KGaA Bioethics Advisory Panel and has stock ownership in Aspen Neuroscience, Inc. T.L. is a coinventor and receives a share of royalties on the following stem cell media and culture related patents currently held and licensed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF): U.S. Patents 7449334, 7442548, 8426203, 8158424. M.L.T. is the Medical Director of the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service. The other authors indicated no potential conflicts of interest."

"Many thanks to GAiT for sponsorship of lunch and Dr. Laurence Daheron and colleagues at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute for making meeting facilities available. Also, thanks to Tennellie Ludwig of WiCell for the coffee! This study was supported by KNIH 2017‐NG61002‐00 and 2017‐NG61004‐00 and by the MRC and the BBSRC. We would especially like to thank to the Steering Group of ISCBI for their contributions on regular teleconference: Jeremy Crook (ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science, Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, AIIM Facility, University of Wollongong, Fairy Meadow, New South Wales, Australia; Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia; Department of Surgery, St. Vincent's Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia), Meri Firpo (Memphis Meats, Berkeley, USA; University of Minnesota, USA), Mathilde Girard (Yposkesi, Corbeil‐Essonnes, France), Simone Haupt (Life and Brain, Bonn, Germany), Maneesha Inamdar (JNCASR, Bangalore, India), Eihachiro Kawase (University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan), Jung‐Hyun Kim (KNIH, Osong, Korea), Steve Oh (Bioprocessing Technology Institute, Singapore), Martin Pera (Jackson Laboratories, Barharbor, USA), Marc Peschanski (Scientific Director at I‐Stem Institute Corbeil‐Essonnes, France), Patricia Pranke (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil), Michael Sheldon (Rutgers, Piscataway, USA), Glyn Stacey (ISCBI, Barley, U.K.), Fanyi Zeng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China), and Qi Zhou (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)."