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EUCAN-Connect DataSHIELD Conference
Registration is now open for the DataSHIELD Conference! When: October 11-13, 2023 Where: NH Groningen, Hanzeplein 132, 9713GW Groningen, Netherlands ...read more
Integration of the Sex and Gender Dimension in Life Sciences Research
Learn how to integrate the sex and gender dimension into your life sciences research at this free F2F Train-the-Trainer course organised by BSC (Bioinfo4Women ...read more
Final EOSC-Life Annual General Meeting
BBMRI-ERIC has made significant contributions to the EOSC-Life project over the past three years. Now, during the Final AGM (2 days), the EOSC-Life consortium wil ...read more
8th Annual Malta Rare Disease Colloquium
The 8th Annual Colloquium on Rare Disease organised by the University of Malta and The National Alliance for Rare Diseases Support – Malta will be held on Frida ...read more
Secure Processing Environment Elements: Hybrid Joint EOSC-Life / HealthyCloud Workshop
Join us at this joint EOSC-Life – HealthyCloud workshop to learn best practices in creating elements of Secure Processing Environments (SPEs)! When: 19-20 June ...read more
3rd BBMRI.QM Newsroom in 2022
We invite you to our 3rd BBMRI.QM Newsroom in 2022, which will be held on 27 September, 10:00-11:15 a.m. CEST via Zoom. At this online event, we will welcome thr ...read more
EBRAINS Workshop: The Future Of Medical Data Sharing In Clinical Neurosciences
The HBP and EBRAINS together with the EAN invite the entire scientific community to join the forthcoming workshop on the Future of Medical Data Sharing in Clini ...read more
AI 4 Imaging: Radiomics, Deep Learning and Synthetic Data – A Hands-on Course
This course on Artificial Intelligence for Imaging is a unique opportunity to join a community of leading-edge practitioners in the field of Quantitative Medical ...read more
Europe Biobank Week on 8-10 November 2021 (virtual)
Europe Biobank Week 2021 will take place online again on 8-10 November 2021: “Biobanking for our future – opportunities unlocked!” Registration ...read more
RI-VIS Australia-Europe Symposium
Save the date for the RI-VIS Australia – Europe Symposium. It will be held Tuesday, October 5th to Thursday, October 7th, 2021, as a virtual event. Stay tun ...read more
Lecture & Webinar: Artificial Intelligence and Impact on Future Medicine
Prof. Kurt Zatloukal, National Node Director of BBMRI.at, has invited Visiting Professor Oskar Mencer, founder of Maxeler Technologies and developer of “Multisc ...read more
Privacy Challenges in the Health Sector through Emerging Technologies
Join our colleague Dr. Ilaria Colussi on 6th July at the Marsilius-Bruckenseminar Sommersemester 2021 organised by the University of Heidelberg: “Privacy Ch ...read more
AI Summer School: The Ethics of Disruption – From AI to Bio-ethics in Art and Research
The conference explores the constituent parts of an ethics framework for approaching, understanding and regulating disruptive technologies focusing on responsible ...read more
Prerequisites for biobanking collaborations and advancements across continents
As part of the RI-VIS Latin America Europe Symposium on Research Infratsructures, BBMRI-ERIC and ESBB are joining forces to host this satellite event to talk abou ...read more
Latin America – Europe Symposium on Research Infrastructures
The RI-VIS Latin America – Europe Symposium will be held between Tuesday, June 15th and Thursday, June 17th 2021, as a virtual event. This event is organise ...read more
ELSI Webinar : GDPR and Biobanking – Book Review – Meet the Authors
The Springer Book “GDPR and Biobanking: Individual Rights, Public Interest and Research Regulation across Europe” is available for open access since a couple ...read more
EATRIS-Plus Summer School in Personalised Medicine
The summer school from EATRIS, the Research Infrastructure for translational medicine, is designed to address a wide array of topics from omic-based strategies an ...read more
GDPR harmonisation is the only way to protect cancer research: an ESMO webinar
Fragmented implementation and interpretation of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) of the European Union (EU) at a local level are posing obst ...read more
Take part in the „NGS in Healthcare” Open Market Consultation
In the context of the H2020 EU project INSTAND-NGS4P, led by BBMRI.at partner Med Uni Graz/BBMRI.at Director Kurt Zatloukal, an Open Market Consultation on the to ...read more
ELSI Webinar: Biobanking with children
On Wednesday 17 March 2021, 14:00 – 15:30 CET Biobanking with children is a practical vector of empowerment and engagement. Without having to expose the ...read more
2nd IBCQ International Biobanking Conference 2021
Qatar Biobank in partnership with the European and Middle Eastern Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking (ESBB), the International Society for Biological and ...read more
Biobanking Course at Institut Pasteur
Institut Pasteur is offering a MOOC on Biobanking, designed to provide participants with insights into the wide range of activities hosted in a biobank. Topics in ...read more
2nd ICPerMed Conference ‘Personalised Medicine – From Vision to Practice’
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions, ICPerMed decided to go virtual and move the event to an online platform. Attendees will have access to all i ...read more
Webinar: Biobanking Placental Tissue – Key Aspects of this Organ
The biobanking community is invited to this webinar by our neighbors at the Medical University of Graz and Biobank Graz! Placental tissue has a high potential for ...read more
International IT Symposium on Biobank Management & Federated Search on 21, 22 and 25 January 2021
Coorganised by BBMRI-ERIC and ESBB. Our biobank community strives for continuous improvements of our services and contributions to Life Sciences. In alignment wit ...read more
Webinar: Psychosocial characteristics of potential participants in biobanking – a study on the Polish population, by Jakub Pawlikowski (BBMRI.pl)
Advances of biomedical research based on biobanks collecting human biological material are highly dependent on the successful recruitment and participation of hum ...read more
Knowledge Transfer Service: Codex4SMEs Webinar on Finding Samples and Data with the BBMRI-ERIC Directory & Negotiator
Date: 3 December 2020 Time: 14:00-15:00 CET Browse biobank collections across Europe and get the samples and clinical data you need During this webinar, BBMRI-ERI ...read more
Workshop: Looking back, going forward
Henrietta Lacks and the first immortalized human cell line, HeLa, have been influential in shaping both science and technology, from the development of the polio ...read more
Biobanks & Health Data Registers Matchmaking event
Eager to learn about collaborations with Biobanks and Health Data Registers (HDR) in the Benelux? The matchmaking event connects different stakeholders in the lan ...read more
SAVE THE DATE – IC2PerMed workshop on EU-China policies and programmes for Personalised Medicine
On Monday 23 November from 09:30 to 11:30CET IC2PerMed project will hold its first e-workshop “Policies and programs in the field of Personalized medicine: fir ...read more
EUCANCan Webinar: International Data Sharing of Cancer Genomic Data
Join the free webinar hosted by the free EUCANcan Consortium (an EU H2020-funded project on cancer data sharing) webinar titled International Data Sharing of Canc ...read more
Workshop: Ethically and socially responsible governance of research biobanks in the Baltic states
The aim of this workshop on 29 October 2020 is to exchange experience and discuss current ethical and social problems of research biobank governance in the Baltic ...read more
Webinar: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in human microbiome biobanking
Human microbiome research has the potential to increase our understanding of how health and disease are affected by the complex relationship between human, our dw ...read more
IVDR – State-of-the-art requirements for analytical performance testing
Date: 20 Oct 2020 (in context of the “LISAvienna – Regulatory Konferenz für Medizinprodukte und IVD”) Time: 09:00-17:30 Location: Vienna ++ ...read more
ENRIITC 1st Networking Meeting for Industry Partnerships in RIs
ENRIITC’s 1st virtual e-meeting has been scheduled from 15 October (13:00 – 15:00 CEST) to 16 October (11:30 – 13:30 CEST). The event is being planned ...read more
Free webinar on clinical data management
From sustainable biomedical research perspective biobanks are becoming more and more vital and the discussion about the management of connected clinical data and ...read more
CINECA Webinar: Status Update Code of Conduct: Teaming up & Talking about it
The CINECA webinar series continues with a presentation by BBMRI-ERIC’s Head of ELSI Sergices & Research Dr. Michaela Th. Mayrhofer on the status of the ...read more
International Summer School on Rare Disease Registries and FAIRification of Data
In order to ensure the correct progress of the planned tasks of EJP RD, ISS ensures that the international course “ International Summer School on Rare Disease ...read more
ESBB International Symposium on Sustainability of Biobanks
The digital International Symposium on Sustainability of Biobanks takes place August 24th – 26th, 2020 from 13:00 – 16:45 CET. We are delighted that so many e ...read more
Webinar: Registering with the BBMRI-ERIC Directory & Negotiator for non-BBMRI biobanks
BBMRI-ERIC and ISBER finalised a partnership to expand the BBMRI COVID-19-Ready Biobank Registry, connect researchers with biobanks across the globe that are o ...read more
The UK Biobank Scientific Conference 23 June 2020
Participate | Collaborate | Innovate 13.00-17.30pm BST and 08:00-13.30 EST This year for the first time the UK Biobank Scientific Conference takes place wholly on ...read more
Webinar: Ethical handling of incidental findings in research
Presenter: Eline Bunnik, PhD, Erasmus MC, BBMRI.nl Moderator: Melanie Goisauf, BBMRI-ERIC In biomedical research involving human subjects, incidental fin ...read more
CORBEL Webinar: Supporting European Research: Communicating the Value of Life Science RIs in Times of Crisis and Beyond
CORBEL presents its final webinar, this time with guest speaker Bogi Eliasen from the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (CIFS). Prior to the webinar, CIFS ...read more
Graz Biomedical Research Workshop
Graz Biomedical Research Workshop Dates: May 11-15, 2020 Location: Online workshop Note: Module 1 (May 11 – May 13) and Module 2 (May 13 – May 15) can be book ...read more
CINECA Webinar: Code of Conduct: Teaming Up & Talking About It
The CINECA webinar series continues with a presentation by Dr. Michaela Th. Mayrhofer (BBMRI-ERIC) on Status Update Code of Conduct: Teaming up & Talking abou ...read more
Web Conference: COVID-19 and Ethical, Legal & Societal Issues
This web conference will first and foremost focus on the ethical issues encountered and addressed during the COVID-19 outbreak in relation to biobanking, focusing ...read more
CORBEL/EOSC-Life Webinar: Best Practices in Training and Communications
CORBEL and EOSC-Life are organising the webinar series “Engaging with your community through events and training”. The series concludes with a discuss ...read more
CORBEL webinar on the BBMRI ELSI Services
Join the CORBEL webinar on “The BBMRI ELSI Services across the Nodes & BMS RIs” on 21 April 2020 at 15:30 CET. Speaker: Michaela Th. Mayrhofer (BB ...read more
BBMRI.QM WEB CONFERENCE – BIOBANKING IN TIMES OF COVID-19: RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR BIOBANKS
This web conference is aimed at biobanking experts and researchers. Together, we will outline what our biobanking community needs during the corona crisis, what i ...read more
CORBEL/EOSC-Life Webinar: Practical Tips for Stepping Up Your Science Communications
CORBEL and EOSC-Life are organising the webinar series “Engaging with your community through events and training”. The series continues with a panel d ...read more
EOSC-Life First Annual General Meeting in Brussels
*Update: New location and venue! We would ask you to please state whether or not you will attend by FRIDAY 28 FEBRUARY via this new Evenbrite page: https://me ...read more
Final Open Meeting for CORBEL Project
*Update!* The final CORBEL meeting will take place on 2 March 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. The consortium will present their solutions for harmonising user access t ...read more
5th European Conference on Clinical Research in Amsterdam
Science, Technology and Regulations Coming Together for Better Patients’ Health Why attend? Up to date topics contributing to improvement of patients’ ...read more
Open ENVRI Community Meeting
The ENVRI Community Meeting, taking place in Dresden (Germany) on 6 February 2020 in the frame of the ENVRI week, aims at facilitating information exchange and di ...read more
CPDP 2020 Data Protection and Artificial Intelligence
Brussels, Thursday 23 January 2020 at 08:45 – Area 42 – Registration at La Cave The panel is co-organized by the research infrastructure BBMRI-ERIC an ...read more
BBMRI-ERIC Negotiator: An In-Depth Webinar on Dealing with Sample Requests – for Biobankers and Researchers
Are you interested in learning how to file a request and respond to a request in the BBMRI-ERIC Negotiator in the most effective manner? Do you want to hear abou ...read more
Joint Annual Meeting of National Nodes BBMRI.at, it, cz, cy
In order to explore synergies and exchange in field of collaboration among BBMRI national nodes, BBMRI.at, BBMRI.it, BBMRI.cz and BBMRI.cy had the idea to organiz ...read more
BBMRI-ERIC Webinar – Biobanks and registries – what’s the difference?
Title: Biobanks and registries – what’s the difference? Speaker: Dr Mary Wang, Fondazione Telethon in Italy Date and Time: 28 November 2019, 14:00-15:0 ...read more
UK Biobanking Showcase in Nottingham
Now in its fifth year, the UK Biobanking Showcase is the premier event of its kind in the UK and has proven to be a successful and popular forum for biobankers, a ...read more
ESFRI Workshop on the Future of Research Infrastructures in the European Research Area
With the next Roadmap of European Research Infrastructures, foreseen for publication in 2021, ESFRI will end the second cycle of its Roadmaps, comprising also th ...read more
BBMRI.ELSI Webinar: Completing the Ethics Self-Assessment for H2020 Proposals – Introduction Part I
Working in close collaboration with the Ethics and Research Integrity Sector at DG Research & Innovation, we are launching an ELSI webinar series on the Ethic ...read more
GBN Webinar: Data Quality and Provenance
The German Biobank Node invites all interested parties to their IT webinar on Data Quality & Provenance! Join the webinar here: https://global.gotomeeting.com ...read more
Europe Biobank Week 2019 in Lübeck, Germany – Register Now!
Join us in beautiful Lübeck, Germany, from 8-11 October for Europe Biobank Week 2019! Europe Biobank Week 2019 will be held on 8-11 October a ...read more
Webinar IV: Using BBMRI-ERIC’s Directory
BBMRI-ERIC’s Directory gives access to over 600 biobanks and 100,000,000 samples across Europe. How can you use our tool to find samples quickly and effecti ...read more
COST Clinimark Training School
The COST Clinimark Training Workshop is taking place from 23-27 September 2019 at the Spetses Hotel, Greece! The quest for novel biomarkers is a popular resear ...read more
Webinar III: Using BBMRI-ERIC’s Directory
BBMRI-ERIC’s Directory gives access to over 600 biobanks and 100,000,000 samples across Europe. How can you use our tool to find samples quickly and effecti ...read more
BBMRI-ERIC Directory Webinar II
BBMRI-ERIC’s Directory gives access to 568 biobanks and 100,000,000 samples across Europe. Join BBMRI-ERIC’s Director General, Erik Steinfelder, on We ...read more
Building Open Science in Europe
The Road Ahead for EU Member States and the EOSC Community eInfraCentral invites researchers from public and private sectors, e-infrastructure service providers, ...read more
UK Biobank Scientific Conference 2019
Register Today! The UK Biobank Scientific Conference is taking place at the QEII Conference Centre, London, on Wednesday, the 19th June. The event is open to he ...read more
European Human Genetics Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden
BBMRI-ERIC’s ELSI data paper will be presented at this conference in Gothenburg, Sweden. Gunnar Houge, President of the European Society of Human Genetics, ...read more
Symposium: AI & Machine Learning for Digital Pathology
From Biobanks to Knowledge Banks AI in pathology is very promising, e.g. deep learning even exceeds human performance in specific cases. However, in the context o ...read more
Webinar on the use of BBMRI-ERIC’s directory
BBMRI-ERIC’s Directory gives access to 568 biobanks and 100.000.000 samples across Europe. How to use our tool? That’s what Erik Steinfelder, Director ...read more
Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference
Registration is now open for the 4th Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference, which will take place in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, from May 22 till 24, 201 ...read more
International Clinical Trials Day 2019: Patient stratification studies: challenges and opportunities
International Clinical Trials Day 2019: Patient stratification studies: challenges and opportunities The European Clinical Research Infrastructure Networ ...read more
European Chemical Biology Symposium: 6-ECBS/LS-EuChemS
The 6th ECBS/LS-EuChemS meeting is set to take place in Madrid from April 3-5, 2019. Jointly organised by EuChemS and EU-OPENSCREEN, the event brings toget ...read more
BBMRI-ERIC Webinar – Material and Data Transfer Agreements (MTA/ DTA)
Title: Material and Data Transfer Agreements (MTA/DTA) Speaker: Dr Olga Tzortzatou, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens Date and Time: 3 Apri ...read more
Clinimark
“Translating biomarker candidates from discovery to the clinic remains a challenge. This second symposium organised by the Clinimark project will examine ho ...read more
Save the date: SPIDIA4P event
Save the date: On the 5th March 2019, the SPIDIA4P project consortium will organise an event at the European Parliament in Brussels. Hosted by MEP Gesine Meissner ...read more
ISBER Biospecimen Research Symposium
ISBER, the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories, will hold its 2nd Biospecimen Research Symposium in Berlin on February 5th and 6th ...read more
Health-RI conference
The 4th Health-RI conference will be held in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on Thursday, January 17, 2019. Health-RI is the Dutch infrastructure for personalized medic ...read more
BBMRI.QM Webinar #5
Title: Data Quality for Biobanks Speaker: Johann Eder Date: 17 January 2019 Time: 10:30-11:30 a.m. CET Click here to register for this webinar. Subscribe to our ...read more
BBMRI.QM Webinar #5
Data Quality for Biobanks Speaker: Johann Eder, Prof. at the Department of Informatics-Systems of the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Austria Register here ...read more
Biobanking Workshop in Latin America
As part of our efforts to support biobanking in different regions of the world, we are organising a biobanking workshop in Rio de Janeiro in early 2019. We believ ...read more
ADOPT BBMRI-ERIC Workshop: Science and Society
Research and innovation lie at the heart of Europe’s economic strategy and make a critical contribution to the development of its society and cultures. They are ...read more
CORBEL Webinar 06.12.2018
Webinar title: BBMRI-ERIC Quality Management Services for basic and applied research on human specimens Speaker: Andrea Wutte, BBMRI-ERIC Date: 6 December 2018, 1 ...read more
14th World Congress of Bioethics
Applications for bursaries for the 14th World Congress of Bioethics are open now and can be submitted until September 15. The 14th World Congress of Bioethics an ...read more
BBMRI.QM Webinar #4
State-of-the-Art Next-Generation Sequencing Speaker: Ivo Gut, Director of the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico Register here More information to the ...read more
How to Build a Biobank – Biobank Graz
Biobank Graz, a BBMRI.at partner biobank, is organising the 4th edition of their “How to build a biobank” course. This interactive 3-day-course has b ...read more
Data Management in Clinical Research
CORBEL, ECRIN an F-CRIN are organising a training course on Data Management in Clinical Research, taking place on 15 November 2018 in Paris. The course is designe ...read more
Ethics of Data Sharing and Biobanking in Health Research
The Global Forum on Bioethics in Research (GFBR) will hold a two-day meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, on 13-14 November 2018 on the theme of ‘the ethics of d ...read more
BBMRI.QM Webinar #3
The NEW standard for biobanks “ISO 20387 Biobanking – General requirements for biobanking” and how the BBMRI-ERIC Quality Management Service can help with i ...read more
Partnerships MeetUp 2018
The Partnerships MeetUp brings together anyone who is interested in pioneering medicine through close collaboration. The event offers an inspiring keynote and int ...read more
Register now for the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion workshop
The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion workshop will bring together representatives from different RIs to share and learn from real-world experiences in the conte ...read more
BBMRI.QM Webinar #2
European Technical Specifications for the pre-analytical phase become ISO International Standards: an update Speaker: Karl-Friedrich Becker, Professor at the Inst ...read more
CORBEL Webinar: West-Life
Title: West-Life: Lessons learnt from developing a virtual research environment Speaker: Chris Morris (Daresbury Laboratory) Date: October 23, 2018 Time: 15:30 CE ...read more
Modelling the Mammalian-Microbiota Host Superorganism
It is now well recognised that microbiota play an important role in the development, immunity and physiology of their mammalian host. Considerable progress has be ...read more
ÖPPM – Joining Forces for Personalized Medicine
The Austrian Platform for Personalized Medicine (ÖPPM) will hold its 2nd Annual Meeting at the Medical University of Graz on October 11 and 12, 2018. The confer ...read more
ENCR Scientific Meeting
The ENCR Scientific Meeting and General Assembly provides all European cancer registries with the opportunity to share research findings, discuss cancer registrat ...read more
BBMRI-ERIC QUALITY MANAGEMENT WEBINAR #1
Date: 11 September 2018 Time: 2-3 p.m. CEST Speaker: Sheng Lin-Gibson, Chief of the Biosystems and Biomaterials Division, USA National Institute of Stand ...read more
BBMRI.QM Webinar #1
Towards more accurate, reproducible, and robust measurement and analysis of biological samples: International Standardization Efforts within ISO/TC 276 – Biotec ...read more
Europe Biobank Week 2018
Co-organised by BBMRI-ERIC and ESBB, Europe Biobank Week 2018 will take place in Antwerp, Belgium, from the 4th until the 7th September 2018. Building on the mome ...read more
Volga Neuroscience Meeting
The International Conference – THE VOLGA NEUROSCIENCE MEETING 2018 will take place on board of a large (about 200 participants) riverboat from July 22 to Ju ...read more
CORBEL webinar
Title: The BBMRI-ERIC ELSI Helpdesk – Personalising ELSI Support Speaker: Jasjote Grewal (BBMRI-ERIC) Date: July 10, 2018 Time: 15:30 CEST The BBMRI-ERIC ELSI H ...read more
CORBEL train-the-trainer workshop & hackathon
This event combines two separate events, a 2-day train-the-trainer workshop and a 1-day course development hackathon. You can choose to attend one or both events, ...read more
CTLS 2018 CONGRESS
The Core Technologies for Life Sciences (CTLS) Association will host its third biannual congress in Ghent, Belgium, from July 1 until 4, 2018. CTLS2018 will see p ...read more
06 BBMRI.QM webinar
“Assays for Qualification and Quality Stratification of Clinical Biospecimens Used in Research: A Technical Report from the ISBER Biospecimen Science Workin ...read more
Webinar: The GDPR – Anonymisation / Pseudonymisation
Title: Webinar: The GDPR – Anonymisation/Pseudonymisation Speaker: Irene Schlünder Date: June 20, 2018 Time: 14:00 CEST The European General Data Protection R ...read more
CORBEL Webinar
Title: Status Update on the Code of Conduct for Health Research Initiative Speaker: Michaela Th. Mayrhofer (BBMRI-ERIC) Date: June 5, 2018 Time: 15:30 CEST The EU ...read more
05a BBMRI.QM webinar
“The CEN technical standard for the pre-analytical phase of frozen tissue samples for DNA isolation” Agenda: Welcome at 11.30 a.m. CEST Presentation of t ...read more
CORBEL Webinar
Title: Quality Management in Distributed Research Infrastructures Speaker: Dr. Michael Raess (INFRAFRONTIER) Date: May 22, 2018 Time: 15:30 CEST Quality Managemen ...read more
CEN and ISO Standards for Pre-analytical Processes
This one-day course will introduce the European standards for the pre-analytical processing of human biospecimens (CEN/TC 140 Technical Specifications for Pree ...read more
Sample and Data Banking Course
Organised by Dr. Luca Sangiorgi, CLIBI laboratory and RIT, the Sample and Data Banking course will take place in Bologna, Italy, on May 16 and 17. Registration is ...read more
German Biobank Node Workshop
German Biobank Node, our National Node in Germany, is organising a one-day workshop titled “Meine Gene gehören mir” (My Genes Are Mine), scheduled to ...read more
Biobanking workshop and symposium in Izmir
A training workshop titled “Rare Disease Biobanking” and a symposium titled “Bridging Biobanks in MENA Countries to Promote Research and Healthc ...read more
BBMRI-ERIC Webinar – The GDPR and Health Research
Speaker: Dr Victoria Chico, University of Sheffield Time: 14:00-15:00 (Central European Summer Time) Summary: The enforcement date for the General Data Protection ...read more
CORBEL/AARC AAI Training Workshop
INFRAFRONTIER, work package leader within the CORBEL project, is organising a two-day training event for the developers of the BMS research infrastructures plan ...read more
The human body in scientific research
BBMRI.pl, our Polish National Node, and the Medical University of Lublin are co-organising a conference titled “The human body in scientific research – philos ...read more
CORBEL webinar
Speaker: Dr. Mikael Linden (ELIXIR Finland), Kostas Koumantaros (GRNET) Summary: CORBEL WP5 has specified Life Science AAI, a common service for authentic ...read more
05 BBMRI.QM webinar
“Intraindividual Temporal miRNA Variability in Serum, Plasma, and White Blood Cell Subpopulations” Agenda: Welcome Presentation “Intraindivid ...read more
BBMRI.QM webinar
EDIReX Project: “EurOPDX Distributed Infrastructure for Research on patient-derived cancer Xenografts“ Agenda: Presentation of the EDIReX Project: ...read more
Ghent Biobanking Day
Biobanks collect samples and tissues and make them available to researchers. The quality of samples and clinical data stored at biobanks strongly depends on the ...read more
04 BBMRI.QM webinar
“In vitro diagnostic medical devices – Clinical performance studies using specimens from human subjects – Good study practice” Agenda: 1. ...read more
03 BBMRI.QM webinar
“BBMRI.uk, The Cardiff Biobank and QMS” Agenda: Welcome Presentation “BBMRI.uk, The Cardiff Biobank and QMS”, Christopher Thomas, Quality Manag ...read more
BBMRI.at organises roundtable discussion
BBMRI.at, our Austrian National Node, is currently organising the 5th edition of a series of roundtable discussions involving members of the general public. Title ...read more
BBMRI.no Biobank Conference
Our Norwegian National Node, BBMRI.no, is organising a biobanking conference in Oslo from March 12 to 13, 2018. Most of the event will be in English, including s ...read more
EU Law in the Pharmaceutical Sector
ERA, the Academy of European Law, is organising its annual conference on EU law in the pharmaceutical sector on March 1 and 2 this year. Key topics will include ...read more
ISBER European Biospecimen Research Symposium
On February 27-28, 2018, ISBER and IBBL will co-host the Biospecimen Research Symposium in Luxembourg. The ISBER Symposium in Luxembourg is ISBER‘s Europe ...read more
CORBEL webinar
Speakers: Christian Ohmann, Rita Banzi, Steve Canham (ECRIN-ERIC) Summary: Transparency and access to research data is a key feature of modern research policy, im ...read more
ETHICAL REVIEW FOR BIOBANK-BASED RESEARCH
The growing complexity of the use of existing data highlights some gaps in the ethical review model currently in use across Europe. Reports from scientists highli ...read more
CORBEL webinar: Lightweight Service Management for RIs
Speaker: Sy Holsinger (EGI Foundation) Summary: To meet customer needs and provide valuable services, it is important to maintain a high quality of service, which ...read more
Conference on BBMRI-ERIC IT tools
Co-organised by Instituto Superiore di Sanità and BBMRI.it, a conference titled “Access to biological samples: use and implementation of BBMRI tools” is set ...read more
02 BBMRI.QM webinar
“Norway, Biobanking of fresh frozen tissue from total prostatectomies” Agenda: Welcome Presentation “Norway, Biobanking of fresh frozen tissue from total p ...read more
Biobanking 2018: Visions for innovation
The Swiss Biobanking Platform will be organising the first edition of the “Biobanking 2018” conference, to be held at the Swiss Convention Center ...read more
Code of Conduct Forum session at CPDP 2018
Organised by BBMRI-ERIC Industry – Academia – Healthcare professionals CPDP, the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection 2018 conference is taking place ...read more
Web conference: 01 WG6 Audit Programme meeting
Agenda: Welcome Presentation “BBMRI.at Audit Programme” Helmuth Haslacher, Dr., Head of Biobank VIENNA and Quality Coordinator of BBMRI.at (Medical Universit ...read more
CORBEL webinar: access management using ARIA
Speaker: Fiona Sanderson (Instruct-ERIC) ARIA provides a wide range of web-based tools for a huge number of organisations worldwide. ARIA cloud services also are ...read more
EMBL CONFERENCE ON LIFELONG LEARNING IN THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES 2017
The EMBL Conference on Lifelong Learning in the Biomedical Sciences 2017 will feature a list of state-of-the-art speakers and includes a number of highly relevan ...read more
Biobank Graz organises 3rd edition of How to Build a Biobank course
This interactive 3-day-course has been designed for all those who are involved in setting up a new biobank, who look to collaborate with a biobank or research ins ...read more
The Politics of Biobanking: Symposium
Together with the University of Copenhagen and other partners, the BBMRI.se Service Centre for Southern Sweden is organising a symposium entitled The Politics of ...read more
Cancer in Africa: Making Strides, Creating Solutions
The 2017 AORTIC International Conference on Cancer in Africa will bring together multidisciplinary specialists from the global cancer community to reduce the impa ...read more
Seminar: GDPR Code of Conduct for Health Research and Implications for FP9
BBMRI-ERIC is hosting a seminar to assess the impact of the GDPR on FP9 health research and examine how the Code of Conduct for Health Research being developed by ...read more
Austrian Platform for Personalized Medicine: Inaugural Event and Scientific Symposium
“The Austrian Platform for Personalized Medicine constitutes a national networking platform aiming to connect all stakeholders and interested parties in the ...read more
UK Biobanking Showcase 2017
The UKCRC Tissue Directory and Coordination Centre are returning to the Oval for their annual meeting UK Biobanking Showcase this autumn. Date: 18th October 2017 ...read more
2017 XNAT Developer Workshop in Rotterdam
The 2017 XNAT Developer Workshop will take place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, from October 16th until October 18th. The workshop is co-organised by the European ...read more
Translational Medicine 2017: Enhancing Predictivity
The European Research Infrastructure for Translational Medicine (EATRIS) will be organising its third bi-annual Translational Medicine 2017 conference from 24 un ...read more
16th CRG Symposium: Seventh International Workshop on Genomic Epidemiology
The 16th CRG Symposium: Seventh International Workshop on Genomic Epidemiology will take place at the PRBB Auditorium from 20 to 22 September 2017 and will gather ...read more
Preserving, storing and maintaining microorganisms 3-day course
Presented by staff from CABI, this course will be of interest to everyone involved in the handling, distribution and storage of microorganisms. The course covers ...read more
Interuniversity Course on Clinical and Research Genomic Data Sharing and Access
The Leuven Institute for human Genomics and Society (LIGAS) is organising an interuniversity course titled ‘Clinical and Research Genomic Data Sharing and Acce ...read more
13th ESA Conference
There will be around 700 sessions by ESA’s 37 Research Networks as well as Research Streams, many semi-plenaries and plenaries, a special PhD workshop and of co ...read more
Liquid Biopsies & Cancer Symposium
The Leuven Cancer Institute (LKI) will be organising a symposium on liquid biopsies and cancer from 28 to 30 August 2017. The topics covered will include the foll ...read more
PHE Biobank Link Webinar: linking cancer registries to Biobanks in England
In this webinar, participants will learn about Public Health England’s (PHE) Biobank Link. Dominic Dwyer, Data Access Officer, will present on how biobank ...read more
Registration for the European Chemical Biology Symposium in Budapest Now Open
Have you always wanted to learn more about the exciting developments currently taking place in chemical biology and EU-OPENSCREEN? The ECBS 2017, taking place in ...read more
Next CORBEL webinar on User Experience Design scheduled for June 27th
Interested in learning how User Experience (UX) design can help you meet your goals? What are the quick wins for knowing your users, designing with your team and ...read more
The German Pathology Society’s 101st Annual Congress
The German Pathology Society will be celebrating its 101st annual congress in Erlangen, Germany, from June 22 until 24 this year. The programme features a wide ra ...read more
How European Biological and Medical Sciences Research Infrastructures Boost Innovation by Open Access
This meeting will explore how the 11 biological and medical sciences research infrastructures (BMS RIs) in Europe can stimulate innovation by providing access to ...read more
First LUXCOR health event in Brussels: Clinical and translational medicine, Big Data, e-Health and next-generation healthcare
The Luxembourg Institute of Health and LUXCOR, the Luxembourg Contact Office for Research and Innovation, are co-organising the first LUXCOR health event in Bruss ...read more
International Retreat on Moral Frontiers in Regenerative Medicine CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany in cooperation with Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany is organizing the International Retreat on “M ...read more
Estimated (disease) risk for coronary atherosclerosis using lifestyle factors and genetic markers: ePerMed workshop in Tartu, Estonia, on 17th June
The Estonian Genome Centre is organising an ePerMed workshop that will take place the day after the Gene Forum 2017 concludes. The event will consist of two part ...read more
17th International Gene Forum to be held in Tartu, Estonia
The overarching theme for the 2017 Gene Forum will be Real World Evidence – Path to Precision Medicine, with a focus on genomics, lifestyle and environment. Spe ...read more
7th Annual SMi BioBanking Conference and Workshop Focussing on Ethics and Biosample Management
Biothèque Wallonie Bruxelles will be participating in the conference, taking place on June 14 and 15, to give a talk titled “An Academic Research Network’s P ...read more
BBMRI-ERIC FORUM MEETING TOWARDS A HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES GDPR CODE OF CONDUCT
BBMRI-ERIC will be hosting a forum meeting in Brussels on June 7 to discuss issues related to the development of a health and life sciences code of conduct in the ...read more
Course on STATISTICAL PRACTICE IN EPIDEMIOLOGY USING R
The Estonian Genome Center and the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Tartu are organising a course titled Statistical Practice in Epide ...read more
Refresher Training: Good Clinical Practice
CIEC will be organising an interactive and certified training course on good clinical practice in the framework of the Luxclin conference, focussing on updated IC ...read more
First CORBEL webinar on research marketing set to take place on May 29
CORBEL is set to launch a new series of webinars that will provide a platform for biological and medical research infrastructures to share their experiences and p ...read more
Inserm workshop 246
Management and Reuse of Health Data: Methodological Issues This workshop will provide insights and tools regarding open data, FAIR data management, data d ...read more
ERINHA conference: launching the European Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents’ scientific strategy
The European Research Infrastructure on Highly Pathogenic Agents (ERINHA), bringing together European high containment facilities and expert institutes, will be h ...read more
Training opportunities for rare disease scientists at the Outreach Day in Berlin
As part of the joint RD-Connect, NeurOmics and EURenOmics annual meeting in Berlin (1-5th of May 2017) RD-Connect will provide a number of training opportunities ...read more
BIOETHICS SYMPOSIUM
The Bioethics Symposium at IMBA will discuss the main challenges arising from recent advancements in life sciences. New technologies like stem cell research, orga ...read more
Round table on BBMRI-ERIC’s contribution to health research capacity building in Africa
In collaboration with B3Africa, BBMRI-ERIC will organise a roundtable in Brussels on 5th April 2017 to explore how to develop health research collaboration with ...read more
BIOVISION – The World Life Sciences Forum
Presenting an impressive line-up of participants addressing evidence and research as well as development and promotion, the 2017 edition of the Biovision life sci ...read more
Standardisation of liquid biopsies-plasma ccfDNA
Aim of the meeting Today many institutions are testing ccfDNA mostly as clinical research, but the investigations have shown a huge potential for clinical ...read more
The 8th Alpbach Workshop on Affinity Proteomics
This meeting will cover the latest developments in antibody generation, validation, application and detection, with many important players in the field attending. ...read more
ECR 2017
The ECR is the annual meeting of the ESR. It is a trend-setting, dynamic and service-oriented congress, well-known as one of the most innovative meetings within t ...read more
BBMRI-ERIC working meeting “The road to a Health and Life Sciences GDPR Code of Conduct”
On 1 February 2017 Biobanking and BioMolecular resources Research Infrastructure – European Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI-ERIC) will host a working ...read more
Third B3Africa Jamboree
The Third B3Africa Jamboree, will again be a face to face meeting of all developers. It will be held in Austria and organised by MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITÄT GRAZ. ...read more
B3Africa Use Case Site Visit & Training No.1
In December 2016, the first B3Africa use case site visit and training will be organised in South Africa. This training event will include: Tool-specific “hands ...read more
GBN Educational Workshops
German Biobank Node Educational Workshops The results, which were compiled in the work packages QM and PR during the 1st funding period will be presented in two w ...read more
Practical biobanking courses in Latvian Biomedical Research and Study centre
Latvian Biomedical Research and Study centre invitates to participate in courses: “From blood to sequence” supported by Seventh Framework project BBMRI- Large ...read more
HOW TO BUILD A BIOBANK – LEARNING BY DOING
Only a few places left This interactive 3-day-course has been designed for all those who are involved in setting up a new biobank, who look to collaborate with a ...read more
UK BIOBANKING SHOWCASE AGENDA ANNOUNCED
UK Biobanking Showcase is the flagship event of the UKCRC Tissue Directory and Coordination Centre. The event will bring together researchers, Biobanks, Industry ...read more
PHD COURSE AND SYMPOSIUM IN SWEDEN
For organisational reasons as well as dietary restrictions, please register on the following link: http://www.123contactform.com/form-2048365/Triple-Helix-In-Bio ...read more
PhD course The Triple Helix in Biobanking: Intertwining Stakeholders
The course will take place in Lund (Medicon Village) from the 14-18 Nov 2016 and the symposium, part of it, will be on Nov 15-16th. Here you can find the ...read more
Public-private partnerships workshop
In recent years, universities have done a lot of work to promote research partnerships with industry. Medical schools are encouraging their research faculties to ...read more
B3Africa Webinar 2
Webinar 2 on ELSI, led by Jane Reichel and Santa Slokenberga of Uppsala Universitet, Sweden Main topics: – Introduction to Ethical, Legal and Social ...read more
CORBEL 1ST ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM)
Tuesday 18 – Wednesday 19 October 2016 Start 12:00 – End 12:15 Location: Austria Trend Hotel Europa Graz http://www.austria-trend.at/en/hotels/europa- ...read more
8TH SANTORINI CONFERENCE – BIOLOGIE PROSPECTIVE
The Santorini Conferences are bringing together scientists from various origin interested in genetics and biological variations in man and its impact on the orig ...read more
B3Africa Webinar 1
B3Africa Work Package 5 (WP5) launched the Webinar series with the first session on Thursday 29 September, 2016, targeted particularly at IT Focal Points. This ...read more
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Our Quality Manager, Andrea Wutte, presents her interview with Tumorbank @ UZA
28 Sep 2016
Interview with Tumorbank @ UZA
Our Quality Manager, Andrea Wutte, presents her interview with Patrick Pauwels (Tumorbank curator), Sofie Goethals (Biobank manager) and Mieke De Wilde (Biobank q ...read more
Europe Biobank Week
Europe Biobank Week: bringing the European biobanking community together to discuss health innovation Brussels/Graz, 28 June 2016 – BBMRI-ERIC and ESBB are join ...read more
THE UKCRC TISSUE DIRECTORY AND COORDINATION CENTRE’S ANNUAL MEETING – UK BIOBANKING SHOWCASE
UK Biobanking Showcase will be a chance to celebrate Biobanking in the UK. On the day, we’ll showcase the range of exciting biobanking capabilities in the ...read more
EMBL CONFERENCE “LIFELONG LEARNING IN THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES”
The EMBL Conference on “Lifelong Learning in the Biomedical Sciences” (www.embl.de/training/events/2016/LLL16-01) is a new international forum to bring toget ...read more
ICL-ESHG SHORT COURSE
Course Dates: 4-8 July 2016 Course Location: Department of Genomics of Common Disease, Imperial College, London, UK Course Leader: Dr Inga Prokopenko Course Lect ...read more
THE CHARME OF STANDARDISATION IN LIFE SCIENCES 21-22 June 2016
Standardisation issues are addressed in many research fields, e.g. R&D, education, technology transfer and application but these research areas are often poor ...read more
COURSE: STATISTICAL PRACTICE IN EPIDEMIOLOGY USING R
Deadline for application: 15 April, 2015 The course is aimed at epidemiologists and statisticians who wish to use R for statistical modelling and analysis of ...read more
ELSI2.0 AND EUCELLEX PROJECT SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM AT THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BIOETHICS
ELSI 2.0 (https://elsi2workspace.tghn.org/) and EUCelLEX (https://www.eucellex.eu/) Project Joint Symposium ‘Exploring International Policy Developmen ...read more
UK BIOBANK ANNUAL MEETING
UK Biobank is a prospective study of 500,000 people. We have collected a wide range of information including genetics on our participants, and we are now hope to ...read more
16TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL GENE FORUM 2016
Estonian Genome Centre of University of Tartu and Estonian Genome Foundation cordially invite you to attend the 16th Annual International Gene Forum 2016. Gene ...read more
PERSONALISED MEDICINE CONFERENCE 2016
The Personalised Medicine Conference 2016 will explore personalised medicine through a research policy lens. Europe is a leader in personalised medicine, an inte ...read more
“FROM BIOSAMPLES TO PERSONALIZED MEDICINE”, SEMINAR
The seminar will take place on Tuesday, 31 May 2016, from 13h00 to 16h00, in the Science 14 Atrium building, ground floor, Rue de la Science 14b, Brussels 1 ...read more
GENETIC DATA IN PUBLIC RESEARCH DATABASES: WHICH GOVERNANCE MECHANISMS SHOULD APPLY?
This workshop aims to 1) explore ethical and legal challenges that may arise when researchers are required to deposit genetic and genomic research data in public ...read more
LONG NIGHT OF RESEARCH
Click HERE to find information about BBMRI-ERIC´s participation! ...read more
ONE-WEEK COURSE: BIOBANKING AS A RESOURCE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
This course will give you new insights on the value of biobanks and how to use these rich sources of samples and related data. It will include lectures on health ...read more
ONLINE RESEARCH ETHICS TRAINING, UPPSALA UNIVERSITY, SPRING 2016
We see a growing concern for research integrity in academic research today. Universities and funding agencies are starting to require formal training in research ...read more
1ST WORKSHOP CORBEL “PATIENT-LEVEL DATA TASKFORCE”
Workshop of the “Multi-stakeholder taskforce on access to individual participant data (IPD) in clinical trials” The first workshop of the CORBEL “p ...read more
BBMRI.at: “Pre Analytical Sample Processing in Biobanking” – A 3 Days Laboratory Course
This 3 days course focuses on the pre-analytic processing of biological samples according to the recently published CEN/TC 140 Technical Specifications for “ ...read more
BBMRI-NL METABOLOMICS WORKSHOP
In collaboration with NIHES and the NMC (Netherlands Metabolomics Center), BBMRI-NL will organize a metabolomics workshop, which will be held in Leiden on the 26 ...read more
August 3rd, 2017
ESOF 2018 Toulouse: new calls for programme proposals opening soon
Founded in 2004 by EuroScience, a non-profit grassrots organisation for researchers in Europe, the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) is the biennial pan-European mee ...read more
October 5th, 2016
Poland is now a full member of BBMRI-ERIC
BBMRI-ERIC welcomes Poland, after being an observer, now as a full member. Updated list of members and observers of BBMRI-ERIC: Members: Austria, Belgium, Czech R ...read more
May 24th, 2017
BBMRI-ERIC Directory reaches 100m samples
BBMRI-ERIC is delighted to announce that its Directory has now reached 100m samples, making it the largest biobanking catalogue on the globe. Having recently been ...read more
May 23rd, 2017
First successful RItrain staff exchange hosted by EATRIS
On March 10 and 11, EATRIS hosted the first RItrain Staff Exchange at its headquarters in Amsterdam. Eleven participants came together with EATRIS staff to share ...read more
May 24th, 2017
Children as Researchers: Event Co-Organised by BBMRI.at Proves a Success
Together with the Austrian Society of Pathology and the Institute of Pathology of the Medical University of Graz, BBMRI.at recently organised a research event for ...read more
Common Minimum Technical Standards and Protocols for Biobanks Dedicated to Cancer Research: New Book Published by IARC
Biobanking has developed at a rapid pace in recent years, initiated by the drive for personalised medicine, the need for high-quality biological resources and ass ...read more
BBMRI-ERIC GAINS MOMENTUM WITHIN ISO AND ITS WORKING GROUPS
Between 26 and 30 October 2015, the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) called for working group meetings within the TC 276 Biotechnology. The Mi ...read more
SPIDIA4P consortium meets in Luxembourg
On April 10th and 11th 2018, IBBL (Integrated Biobank of Luxembourg) hosted the SPIDIA4P consortium meeting at its new premises in Dudelange, Luxembourg. S ...read more
August 3rd, 2017
Article co-authored by Petr Holub among high-impact articles in Biopreservation and Biobanking
Petr Holub, BBMRI-ERIC IT/Data Protection Manager, is one of the authors of an article titled Toward Global Biobank Integration by Implementation of the Minimum ...read more
May 23rd, 2024
BBMRI-ERIC Launches FP10 Position Paper
This article is 1727 words and is an approximate 7-minute read. BBMRI-ERIC, the European Research Infrastructure for Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources in Heal ...read more
January 7th, 2015
THE BBMRI-ERIC FAMILY WELCOMES
Outi Törnwall (EU Project Manager) and Luc Deltombe (Communication / Finance Assistant) as permanent staff to the BBMRI-ERIC Central Executive Management Off ...read more
November 12th, 2015
SURVEY: POLICIES AND PRACTICES CONCERNED WITH SHARING INDIVIDUAL BIOBANK RESULTS WITH PARTICIPANTS
Do we share – or do we not share – results with donors? Policies, practices and opinions of all BBMRI biobanks on sharing biobank results with donors ...read more
August 27th, 2016
ARTICLE IN “THE LANCET Oncology”
Summary Background The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is used to screen for prostate cancer but has a high false-positive rate that translates into unnecess ...read more
November 25th, 2015
MAIMUNDA MENDY ABOUT THE BCNET TRAINING
The International Agency for Research on Cancer recently organised and hosted the first BCNet training workshop, in Lyon from 3 – 5 November 2015. Read her arti ...read more
BBMRI-ERIC ASSOCIATED EXPERT CENTRES – TRUSTED PARTNERS
BBMRI-ERIC brings together the expertise of many disciplines in order to operate the pan-European research infrastructure for biobanks and biomolecular resources ...read more
December 16th, 2015
BBMRI-ERIC MEETS JAPAN
From 5-10 December Jan-Eric Litton was invited by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) to present BBMRI-ERIC and the International standards that we ...read more
December 16th, 2015
100% OF MEMBER STATES REPLY ON SHARING RESULTS
The sharing-results policies, practices and opinions of biobanks have been surveyed by the EU Horizon 2020 funded Genetics Clinic of the Future (GCOF) project. T ...read more
December 17th, 2015
MAJOR STEP FORWARD IN ESTABLISHING EUROPEAN BIOBANK FOR MEDICAL IMAGING
The European Society of Radiology (ESR) and the Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructures – European Research Infrastructure Consortium (BB ...read more
BBMRI-ERIC WELCOMES THE DETAILS ON THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION
“BBMRI-ERIC has played a vital role to improve the GDPR“, says BBMRI-ERIC’s Director General Prof. Jan-Eric Litton. BBMRI-ERIC has met with sev ...read more
December 17th, 2015
BBMRI-ERIC MENTIONED IN NATURE MAGAZINE
European medical research escapes stifling privacy laws Proposed legislation had threatened the use of genomic and clinical data in medical studies. A threat to ...read more
December 17th, 2015
BBMRI-ERIC DIRECTORY 2.0
BBMRI-ERIC is pleased to announce availability of the BBMRI-ERIC Directory 2.0, which brings interesting new features that allow for fine-grained and more accura ...read more
January 7th, 2016
IRISH DATA RESEARCH CENTRE JOINS CALL FOR BETTER BIOBANKING INFRASTRUCTURE IN IRELAND AND EUROPE
The Insight Centre for Data Analytics and BBMRI-ERIC hosted a seminar entitled ‘The Input of BioMolecular Biobanking to Data Analytics and Medical Researc ...read more
January 22nd, 2016
BIOBANKING IN IRELAND
Earlier this month, Insight@UCC hosted a seminar about biobanking in which the European biobanking infrastructure BBMRI-ERIC laid out the case for Ireland becomi ...read more
February 9th, 2016
WELCOME TO OUR NEW FINANCE / ADMINISTRATION ASSISTANT
The BBMRI-ERIC Family welcomes Carmen Cristea (Finance / Administration Assistant) as permanent staff to the BBMRI-ERIC Central Executive Management Office in Gr ...read more
ELSI 2.0 + EUCELLEX PROJECT SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM BURSARIES AVAILABLE
*Bursaries for Early Career Researchers now available* Dear All, We are delighted to announce that a limited number of bursaries are now available to subsidise e ...read more
March 4th, 2016
BBMRI-ERIC AT THE ECR 2016
4 March 2016 – Biobanking and BioMolecular resources Research Infrastructure – European Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI-ERIC) will take part i ...read more
FULL PARTNER OF RD-CONNECT
BBMRI-ERIC is now an official partner of RD-Connect. RD-Connect is a unique global infrastructure project that links up databases, registries, biobanks and clini ...read more
B3AFRICA NEWSLETTER
Editorial by the Project Coordinator The rapidly evolving African biobanks are invaluable for biomedical research because the African population has the greatest ...read more
MIABIS 2.0 PUBLISHED
Toward Global Biobank Integration by Implementation of the Minimum Information About BIobank Data Sharing (MIABIS 2.0 Core) Merino-Martinez Roxana, Norlin Loreana ...read more
March 23rd, 2016
EGI FITSM TRAINING CALENDAR FOR 2016
EGI is pleased to announce the first dates of 2016 for FitSM training and certification. FitSM is a pragmatic, lightweight and achievable standard for IT servi ...read more
April 4th, 2016
EUROPE BIOBANK WEEK – REGISTRATION AND ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Registration and Abstract Submission are open now: http://europebiobankweek.eu/submission ...read more
April 6th, 2016
BBMRI, ESBB & ISBER TO COLLABORATE FOR A JOINT MEETING IN AUTUMN 2017
BBMRI-ERIC, ESBB and ISBER signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) which defines collaboration, mutual recognition, and shared approaches for the hosting of ...read more
April 11th, 2016
BBMRI ELSI WORKSHOP REPORT
Sharing and access to data and human biospecimens for the benefit of patients – Towards a BBMRI-ERIC Policy Short Summary Rational and main objectives Th ...read more
EU GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION ADOPTED THIS WEEK
On Thursday April 14, the European Parliament has adopted the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The legislation will likely come into force in the sp ...read more
LAUNCH OF THE CORBEL INNOVATION OFFICE
We are pleased to announce the launch of the CORBEL Innovation Office, intended to provide advice and assistance to streamline research collaboration among Europe ...read more
April 22nd, 2016
BBMRI-ERIC & PATIENT ORGANISATIONS JOIN FOR ENGAGEMENT PROCESS
Patient advocacy group representatives and the Biobanking and BioMolecular resources Research Infrastructures – European Research Infrastructure Consortium ...read more
April 26th, 2016
LONG NIGHT OF RESEARCH TOOK PLACE IN AUSTRIA
On 22 April 2016 the “Long Night of Research” took place all over Austria. More than 180,000 visitors came to see research projects, scientific disc ...read more
INTERVIEW WITH PETER RIEGMAN
Our Quality Manager, Andrea Wutte, presents her interview with the head of the Erasmus MC Tissue Bank, Peter Riegman! Peter Riegman is a Molecular Biologist and p ...read more
August 5th, 2016
BBMRI-ERIC WELCOMES CYPRUS
The Assembly of Members of BBMRI-ERIC welcomes Cyprus as an Observer. Find information about our latest National Node here: Cyprus ...read more
CNAG ACHIEVES ISO 17025:2005 ACCREDITATION
The Centre Nacional d’Anàlisi Genòmica has been accredited according to UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 standard by ENAC (Entidad Nacional de Acreditación), specif ...read more
FAQs on the General Data Protection Regulation
On 14 April 2016, the European Parliament adopted the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Protection of Natural Persons with regard ...read more
COE ADOPTED REC ON BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted a new Recommendation on research on biological materials of human origin on 11 May 2016. The current ...read more
May 24th, 2016
SURVEY: CLOSING THE EVIDENCE GAP ON PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARDS GENETIC DATA HANDLING
While “data sharing” for biomedical research is currently very high on the agenda of funders and policy makers, there is a dearth of evidence on h ...read more
INTERVIEW WITH KARL-FRIEDRICH BECKER
Our Quality Manager, Andrea Wutte, presents her interview with the Head of the Laboratory for Experimental Pathology in Munich/Germany, Karl-Friedrich Becker! Kar ...read more
May 24th, 2016
BIO INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION, SAN FRANCISCO 2016
Joint session by the global collaboration group at BIO International Convention, San Francisco 2016 The global collaboration group is organising a session at BI ...read more
May 25th, 2016
EURO-BIOIMAGING LAUNCHED ITS INTERIM OPERATION
European life science researchers now have the possibility to use state-of-the-art imaging technologies, which they do not find at their home institutions or amo ...read more
CBMED IS THE FIRST EXPERT CENTRE OF BBMRI-ERIC
CBmed, an Austrian funded competence center, links excellent research infrastructure, scientific expertise, medical knowledge, national and international industry ...read more
May 25th, 2016
BBMRI.AT CITIZEN-EXPERT PANELS
Active discussion between Austrian citizens and experts from biobanking at the 3rd BBMRI.at Citizen-Expert Panels in Graz. Find out more on the website of BBMRI.a ...read more
A REFERENCE BOOK ON ETHICS AND LAW FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INVOLVED IN THE USE OF HUMAN BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES
biobanques de recherche or Ethics and Regulation of Research Biobanks”, written in French, in collaboration with the BIOBANQUES Ethics and Regulation Depar ...read more
June 7th, 2016
“BROAD CONSENT IN BIOBANK RESEARCH” IN THE EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS
The European Journal of Medical Genetics accepted a paper from our biobanking Task Force from the Working Party of the German Medical Ethics Committees. Abstract ...read more
B3AFRICA NEWSLETTER ISSUE 02/2016
To read the full version of the newest B3Africa newsletter, including updates from the B3Africa ELSI Workshop and the First B3Africa Technical Jamboree, please ...read more
May 24th, 2016
CALL FOR APPLICATION: COURSE ON TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AND MEDICINE DEVELOPMENT
The C-COMEND Course is a course consisting of an introductory e-learning (~20 hours student investment time) followed by a 5-day face-to-face workshop. The cours ...read more
June 30th, 2016
GERMAN BIOBANK NODE NEWSLETTER Q2 2016
The Summer Edition of GBN-newsletter features the main theme of ELSI. This focus was selected not only because the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (G ...read more
A BIG STEP TOWARDS PERSONALISED MEDICINE: CBMED APPOINTED FIRST EXPERT CENTRE OF EUROPEAN BIOBANKS
Graz (Austria), July 2016 – The Graz based research facility CBmed has been appointed the first European “BBMRI-ERIC Expert Centre/Trusted Partner” (Biobank ...read more
May 22nd, 2017
New European Initiative ORION launched in Barcelona at the Beginning of May
ORION is a new collaborative European project that will explore ways in which research and funding organisations in life sciences and biomedicine can open up the ...read more
New Self-Assessment Survey
We are delighted to announce that a new Self-Assessment Survey for biobanks is available now. The purpose of the BBMRI-ERIC Self-Assessment Surveys is to encourag ...read more
September 8th, 2016
Welcome our new Member State Latvia
The Assembly of Members welcomes our 20th Member State! You can find more information about our new member here! ...read more
September 9th, 2016
International Life Sciences Award 2016
We are happy to announce that BBMRI-ERIC has been awarded as Best European Health Research Organisation. GHP Announces Winners of the 2016 International Life Sc ...read more
Interview with Helmuth Haslacher
Helmuth Haslacher is resident physician of clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine and Deputy Biobank Coordinator at the Department of Laboratory Medicine of t ...read more
BLOG ENTRY HANDSON: BIOBANKS 2015, MILAN
From 29-31 July 2015, the annual BBMRI conference HandsOn Biobanks 2015 took place in Milan. It was a very interesting biobank conference, organised by Prof. ...read more
BLOG ENTRY 11/05/2015
Update to the ongoing development of ISO Standardisation processes for „Biobanks and bioresources”, most relevant for the BBMRI-ERIC community. On ...read more
Interview with Anne Carter
Anne Carter is the Director of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration’s Tissue Directory and Coordination Centre at University College London. This role b ...read more
Interview with Barbara Parodi
Barbara Parodi is a medical doctor and the Executive Manager of the Biological Resource Centre of the National Institute for Cancer Research (IRCCS AOU San Martin ...read more
February 4th, 2020
Meet our Team – Carmen Cristea
This week, we’re getting to know Carmen Cristea, our Finance Manager and currently Interim Co-Director General. Hi, Carmen! What does a typical day look l ...read more
February 3rd, 2020
Meet our Team – Ayodeji Adeniran
Meet one of our newest employees, Ayodeji Adeniran. Coming to us from the University of Reading as a Research and Enterprise Contracts Officer, Ayodeji is now BB ...read more
July 14th, 2022
BBMRI-ERIC at the ERIC Forum ESOF2022 Session on Sustainability
The ERIC Forum at ESOF2022: Virtual Session on Research Infrastructures’ Contribution to Environmental Sustainability begins tomorrow! BBMRI-ERIC Director Gener ...read more
September 22nd, 2016
Closing Ceremony at the EBW 2016
The Europe Biobank Week attracted 682 registrants who were able to participate in scientific sessions, workshops and satellite meetings, which got rounded off by ...read more
CORBEL 1st Open Call for Research Projects
CORBEL (www.corbel-project.eu) seeks to harmonise access to European research infrastructures joining their various expertise across the range of life science dis ...read more
September 29th, 2016
Jan-Eric Litton about the Europe Biobank Week 2016
The recent Europe Biobank Week in Vienna “Biobanking for Health Innovation” conference concluded as a big success for the biobanking community bringing togeth ...read more
February 3rd, 2020
Meet our Team – Łukasz Kozera
We are launching a new series of employee interviews, so you can get to know who is working at BBMRI-ERIC and what kind of work we’re doing! We’re k ...read more
CORBEL launches 1st Open Call for research projects
CORBEL – Coordinated Research Infrastructures Building Enduring Life-science services – is an EC Horizon2020 project uniting 11 Biological and Medical Science ...read more
October 11th, 2016
German Biobank Node Newsletter
Editorial For this issue, we have decided to wrap up the German Biobank Node’s ongoing activities because the first funding period is almost at its end. We look ...read more
B3Africa Newsletter Issue No. 03/2016
In this third and latest issue issue of the B3Africa Newsletter, the project presents news from the first and second technical Jamborees with a video, updates fro ...read more
Primer on Law and Ethics for Researchers involved in Biobanking
News from B3Africa: In most jurisdictions, researchers have a legal, as well as a moral, duty to ensure that their research adheres to national standards and reg ...read more
New WMA Declaration of Taipei on HDB published
On behalf of the CS ELSI Task Force on International Organisation Policy Assessment and Monitoring Task Force (TF IO Policy), we inform you that the draft WMA dec ...read more
October 17th, 2016
Patient Engagement in Biobanking
“Why patient engagement and data management are important for research” – Kurt Zatloukal, BBMRI.at National Node Director and Pathologist at the ...read more
October 27th, 2016
Movie “Golden Genes” – Biobanking goes Cinema
The BBMRI.at partners, Institute of Pathology and Biobank Graz (both Medical University of Graz), contributed to the cinema film “Golden Genes”. Follo ...read more
October 27th, 2016
Meeting with EORTC
Director Generals of BBMRI-ERIC (Jan-Eric Litton) and EORTC – European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (Denis Lacombe) met in Brussels i ...read more
2nd Expert Centre of BBMRI-ERIC: The ATMA Platform
ATMA Platform, an Expert Centre to Accelerate Clinical Research with focus on Biomarker verification and validation. ...read more
November 22nd, 2016
The UK Biobanking Timebomb: Maintaining Public Trust in Medical Research
On the 25th October BBMRI.uk attended an event in parliament organised by The University of Nottingham. The UK Biobanking Timebomb: Maintaining Public Trust in Me ...read more
November 23rd, 2016
UK Biobanking Showcase 2016
On the 16th November BBMRI.uk held their second ever annual meeting at the oval Cricket ground in London. The day kicked off with a brief introductory video on th ...read more
October 28th, 2016
New Recommendation on the processing of personal health-related data
The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted a new Recommendation on the processing of personal health-related data for insurance purposes, including data resulting from genetic tests. ...read more
November 21st, 2016
First newsletter of the Belgian Virtual Tumorbank
The Belgian Virtual Tumourbank issued its first newsletter with the following topics: Tumour biobanking in Belgium The BVT catalogue (BVTc) Accessing information ...read more
November 23rd, 2016
BBMRI.at: Strong premiere of cinema film about biobanks in Graz/Austria
Around 100 visitors came to the KIZ Royale cinema to watch the documentary movie and participate in the panel discussion with experts and film protagonists from B ...read more
December 9th, 2016
Collaborating on big data to unravel disease processes
Patients with the same illness often receive the same treatment, even if the cause of the illness is different for each person. Six Dutch universities are combini ...read more
January 30th, 2020
Farewell Message from Erik Steinfelder
Erik Steinfelder has his last official day as Director General of BBMRI-ERIC on Friday, 31 January 2020. We are taking this time to say thank you and goodbye to ...read more
News about GDPR Implementation and Guidance from the Art.29 DPWP
The Article 29 Working Party (“WP29”) has issued new guidance on three important aspects of the new General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), which com ...read more
Revised version of the CIOMS Ethical Guidelines for Human Research
The Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) last week finalized the latest revision to its ethical guidelines for health research invo ...read more
December 19th, 2016
Registration of human tissue banks could stop millions of samples going to waste
A change in the way human tissue banks are registered should help prevent millions of human tissue samples, that could be used for medical research, from going to ...read more
December 19th, 2016
Call for Applications
The Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, invites applications for up to 10 Early Career Fellowsh ...read more
RItrain: Staff Exchange Programme Pilot winners identified
Part of WP5 is to develop and run staff exchanges between personnel from different RI. Staff exchanges will enable key personnel in research infrastructures to l ...read more
RItrain: Calls for Applications for Staff Exchange
The purpose of RItrain Staff Exchanges is for managerial staff from European Research Infrastructures to learn from managerial and leadership best practices in ar ...read more
New OECD Council of Ministers Recommendations on Health Data Governance
The OECD Health Ministers welcomed the Recommendation of the OECD Council on Health Data Governance at their meeting in Paris on 17 January 2017. The Recommendati ...read more
April 12th, 2017
Anne Cambon-Thomsen Joining the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies
Following the renewal of its mandate, the new European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies has been officially launched. Anne Cambon-Thomsen, Co-Direc ...read more
January 24th, 2017
Join us at the first GLOBAL BIOBANK MEETING
BBMRI-ERIC, ESBB and ISBER are joining forces for the first Global Biobank Week which will take place from September 13th to 15th, 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. &nbs ...read more
January 25th, 2017
New BBMRI.at Consortium Partner
BBMRI.at welcomes the University of Vienna as new consortium partner which under the leadership of Prof.Ulrike Felt will continue with the current team its excell ...read more
January 23rd, 2017
Article about BBMRI.pl
Organization of BBMRI.pl: The Polish Biobanking Network Abstract In Poland storage of human biological samples takes place at most universities and scienti ...read more
January 25th, 2017
Jan-Eric Litton in Nature: “We must urgently clarify data-sharing rules”
Scientists have worked hard to ensure that Europe’s new data laws do not harm science, but one last push is needed, says Jan-Eric Litton. In a little ...read more
January 26th, 2020
CETOCOEN EXCELLENCE Project Kicks Off in Brno
On January 15, 2020, the H2020 TEAMING “CETOCOEN Excellence” project was ceremonially launched in Brno, Czech Republic. BBMRI-ERIC is beneficiary of this proj ...read moreBBMRI-ERIC’s IT and Data Protection Manager Petr Holub is spearheading BBMRI’s involvement in the H2020 project. ...read more
February 2nd, 2017
ECRIN press release
Towards better medicines for children: PedCRIN project builds research infrastructure ...read more
February 8th, 2017
Code of conduct for using personal data in health research
Group mulls guidance on use of personal dataResearchers and lawyers are working on a code of conduct for using personal data in health research, aimed at ...read more
February 13th, 2017
Article in *Research Europe
Group plans guidance on personal data use Text written by Craig Nicholson Researchers and lawyers are working on a code of conduct for the use of personal data i ...read more
Standardisation and improvement of pre-analytical workflows
European biobanks providing human specimens and human derived materials usable for research, are seeking to implement standardised pre-analytical workflow steps f ...read more
Biobanks Europe Magazine #6
Ensuring reproducibility and reliability of scientific work should be at the heart of medical science. It is thus an issue of great concern for BBMRI-ERIC and we ...read more
CORBEL staff exchanges: Call for Hosts 2017
The purpose of CORBEL staff exchanges is for operational staff from the Research Infrastructures participating in CORBEL to develop operational expertise in four ...read more
February 20th, 2017
!NEW! – MSC in Biobanking
The Master’s course “MSc in Biobanking” starts for the second time! More at bbmri.at ...read more
International Biobanking Experts at BBMRI.at Course in Graz
How to improve the quality of biobank samples, could be experienced in the BBMRI.at laboratory course “Pre-Analytical Sample Processing in Biobanking”. More a ...read more
BBMRI-LPC: THROUGH ACCESS TO SUCCESS
The European-wide, FP7-funded BBMRI-LPC project (Biobanking and Biomolecular Research Infrastructure ― Large Prospective Cohorts; GA no. 313010) brought togethe ...read more
EXECUTIVE MASTERS IN MANAGEMENT OF RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES
RItrain, the Research Infrastructure Training Programme, is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project aimed at improving and professionalising the training of managerial ...read more
Answers to FAQs on EU GDPR – New Version Available Now
On May 24, 2016, the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Protection of Natural Persons with regard to the Processing of Personal Data ...read more
Summary Report on the BBMRI-ERIC Working Meeting on Health and Life Sciences GDPR Code of Conduct
On 1 February 2017, BBMRI-ERIC held a working meeting in Brussels, bringing together around 30 representatives from the European biological and medical science r ...read more
March 10th, 2017
BBMRI.SE’s Biobank Perspectives Newsletter 10.03.2017
In this issue of Biobank Perspectives you can read about some of the challenges that arise when biobanking stem cells in relation to a new project on the legal an ...read more
March 20th, 2017
Swiss Biobanking Platform – Newsletter N°2
The Swiss Biobanking Platform’s Newsletter N°2 features information on new hub coordinators, new partners, the Working Groups on Harmonisation, the Bioban ...read more
March 20th, 2017
Preliminary Programme for Global Biobank Week Now Online!
Do you want to have a sneak peek at the GBW preliminary programme? Are you interested in submitting an abstract for GBW? Do you want to register for GBW and get ...read more
March 23rd, 2017
BBMRI-ERIC and its Stakeholder Forum in a Nutshell
Former Director General Jan-Eric Litton and Chief Policy Officer of the Common Service ELSI Michaela Th. Mayrhofer each give us a short summary of BBMRI-ERIC and ...read more
June 23rd, 2018
Biobank alliance launches information campaign
Every day, hundreds of people donate biomaterials in German hospitals, thus helping to further medical progress. According to surveys conducted by the German Biob ...read more
March 29th, 2017
BBMRI-ERIC at the Integrating Research and Healthcare for Rare Diseases Workshop in Malta
Since there is a major interest for collaboration between rare diseases researchers in Europe and beyond, rare diseases have been defined as one of the core prior ...read more
March 30th, 2017
News from our National Node in Austria
A new publication by BBMRI.at titled Automatic Classification System for Pathological Findings is now available for download from BBMRI.at’s news section. Read ...read more
March 30th, 2017
European Reference Networks: a new concept came to reality
The 3rd official European Reference Network (ERN) conference took place in Vilnius, Lithuania, on the 9th of March. The following day was dedicated to the kick-of ...read more
Promoting Engagement, Quality and Good Practices: 6 National BBMRI.it Working Groups and an Intensive Road Map
In what will be a special year for infrastructure consolidation due to the implementation throughout Europe of two regulations defining a new framework for rese ...read more
The new B3Africa Newsletter is out
Issue No. 2017/02 of the B3Africa newsletter features a range of upcoming webinars, a new infographic explaining what the eB3Kit is, some information on conferenc ...read more
BBMRI-ERIC Round Table in Brussels on Biobanking Collaboration with Africa
A round table titled Biobanking collaboration with Africa: BBMRI-ERIC’s contribution to health research capacity building in Africa is taking place in Brussels ...read more
April 7th, 2017
Meet Johanna, our new communication officer!
The BBMRI-ERIC family is delighted to welcome Johanna Dungl as our new Communication Officer, joining us at the BBMRI-ERIC Central Executive Management Office in ...read more
APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN!
Applications for the Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastructures are open now and can be submitted using the online form available here. Click her ...read more
April 26th, 2017
Applications Now Open: Course on Translational Research and Medicine Development
The course consists of an introductory e-learning stage (around 24 hours student investment time), followed by a 5-day face-to-face workshop. It is intended for P ...read more
April 27th, 2017
New Tools to Facilitate Findability and Accessibility of Biobanking Resources
BBMRI-ERIC is proud to announce that two new tools aiming to improve the findability and accessibility of biobanking resources in Europe, and possibly even beyond ...read more
April 27th, 2017
Establishing a New Biobank Network in Istanbul, Turkey
The Investing in the Future: BIOBANK project, which was funded by the Istanbul Development Agency during the 2015-2016 period, has been successfully completed. Th ...read more
April 27th, 2017
TURKISH GENOME PROJECT LAUNCHED
The newly founded Health Institutes of Turkey (TUSEB) have initiated a Turkish genome project that aims at sequencing 100,000 genomes from healthy individuals as ...read more
April 27th, 2017
German biobanks receive 14 million Euros of government funding to build a professional infrastructure
As of May 1, 2017, eleven German biobanks will be joining forces in the German Biobank Alliance in order to build a network of biobanks supporting research projec ...read more
April 27th, 2017
News from our National Node in Austria
BBMRI.at-internal QM cross audit at Biobank Graz A sign of mutual trust within the BBMRI.at consortium – March 2017 Read the full article here New pu ...read more
April 27th, 2017
Organising BBMRI.pl: The Polish Biobanking Network
Poland has around 40 large biorepositories storing unique biological material such as whole brains and muscle fibres from patients with rare diseases, as well as ...read more
May 5th, 2017
German Biobank Alliance Launched
After a long, intensive preparatory phase, the German Biobank Alliance has finally been launched. Coordinated by the German Biobank Node, it will serve the enti ...read more
May 9th, 2017
Abstract submission deadline for Global Biobank Week extended
The deadline for the submission of abstracts for the 2017 Global Biobank Week in Stockholm has been extended to May 18. Click here for more information and to sub ...read more
May 9th, 2017
New comment co-authored by Jan-Eric Litton: Bridging the translational innovation gap through good biomarker practice
Jan-Eric Litton is one of the authors of a comment recently published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. Titled Bridging the Translational Innovation Gap Through ...read more
November 9th, 2017
BBMRI-ERIC replies to European Commission public consultation
In autumn 2017, the European Commission launched a public consultation on the transformation of health and care in the Digital Single Market (click here). The con ...read more
May 12th, 2017
Memorandum of Understanding to set up an ERIC Forum Signed by our Director General this Week
The 6th European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) Network Meeting took place in snowy Helsinki on May 9 and 10. After two days of presentations and break ...read more
June 2nd, 2017
INFRAFRONTIER2020 Project Trans-national Access call June 2017: Late-onset systemic phenotyping (ageing pipeline)
Context and aim of the call INFRAFRONTIER is the European Research Infrastructure for phenotyping, archiving and distribution of model mammalian genomes. The INFR ...read more
July 7th, 2017
Survey on sustainability of human research biobanks
“Biobanks are an important resource for clinical and environmental research and financially sustaining the infrastructures is a challenge that is being experien ...read more
BBMRI.at partner Medical University of Innsbruck hosts biobanking workshop on new sample quality standards
The Medical University of Innsbruck, a BBMRI.at partner, recently hosted a biobanking workshop to introduce the new sample quality standards defined within the C ...read more
July 21st, 2017
Medical University of Graz (BBMRI.at) co-organises meeting on open innovation: How Research Infrastructures Boost Innovation
The Medical University of Graz, one of the BBMRI.at partners, and EATRIS recently co-organised a meeting in Brussels as part of the H2020-funded CORBEL (Coordinat ...read more