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January 13th, 2023

New BBMRI-ERIC podcast episode: Exploring the Lightweight Distributed Provenance Model for Complex Real–world Environments – biobanking, medical research data and reproducibility

“We realised we needed to start something new to address the medical research reproducibility crisis.” The latest episode of the BBMRI-ERIC podcast is now ava ...read more


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December 19th, 2022

Quality Talk: José Antonio López-Guerrero of IVO Biobank on achieving ISO 20387

This article is 1,787 words, an eight-minute read. In August 2022, the team at IVO Biobank in Spain became the first in the BBMRI-ERIC network to achieve ISO 203 ...read more


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November 14th, 2022

Giuseppe Ippolito – General Director for Research and Innovation in Healthcare – Ministry of Health – closes BBMRI-ERIC Paediatrics event

Highly regarded epidemiologist and General Director for Research and Innovation in Healthcare at the Italian Ministry of Health, Giuseppe Ippolito, spoke in depth ...read more


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November 14th, 2022

ESBB and BBMRI-ERIC formalise closer collaboration

Prof. Jens Habermann, Director General of the Biobanking and BioMolecular Research Infrastructure (BBMRI-ERIC),and Dr. Dominik Lermen, Outgoing President of The E ...read more


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October 6th, 2022

Strengthening collaboration between BBMRI-ERIC and the Nordic biobanks – conference report

Professor Jens Habermann, Director General, Dr. Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Head of ELSI, and Dr. Manuela Pausen, Scientific Stakeholder Specialist, recently attend ...read more


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September 1st, 2022

Wroclaw Medical University Biobank: From BBMRI-ERIC Quality Label to ISO 20387 accredited

Wroclaw Medical University Biobank (WMU Biobank), one of the leading BBMRI.pl biobanks and responsible for implementing common QMS solutions in the Polish Biobank ...read more


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September 1st, 2022

LBBK-Warsaw UM organised a biobanking symposium during the TERMIS Conference

Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) European Chapter Conference 2022 was held in Krakow, Poland, from 28th June to 1st Jul ...read more


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July 25th, 2022

Biobanks in Spain and Italy receive international biobank standard ISO 20387 accreditation

Two national biobanks, the Fundación Instituto Valenciano de Oncología (IVO Biobank) in Spain and the Biobanca Multispecialista (BMS) in Italy, have just receiv ...read more


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July 25th, 2022

Meet Sara and Konrad!

BBMRI-ERIC welcomes two new members to our headquarters team. Sara Crockett, Communications Specialist, holds a B.S. in Botany and a B.S. in Molecular Biology and ...read more


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July 12th, 2022

Welcome #HamiltonStorage as Bronze Sponsor of Europe Biobank Week Roadshow 2022!

Our EBW22 Roadshow Event in Regensburg, Germany is coming up soon – 19-20 September 2022 We welcome #HamiltonStorage as Bronze Sponsor of the EBW22 Roadshow ...read more


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July 5th, 2022

Europe Biobank Week Roadshow 2022: save the date for the second stop!

Second stage – Rome, Italy, 13-14 October 2022 The second stop of our EBW22 Roadshow will be in Rome (Italy), 13-14 October. BBMRI-ERIC and ESBB organize ...read more


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June 30th, 2022

BBMRI-ERIC’s staff visiting our Czech National Node and partners in Brno!

Our Director General, Prof. Jens Habermann, our Head of Public Affairs, Jana Pavlič-Zupanc and our IT/Data Protection Manager, Petr Holub, recently visited our C ...read more


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June 30th, 2022

Our Slovenian National Node visited the Central Office in Graz

On Monday, 20 June, Jens Habermann, Director General of BBMRI-ERIC, and Jana Pavlič-Zupanc, Head of Public Affairs, had the pleasure to host the Slovenian Nation ...read more


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June 24th, 2022

BBMRI.cz: Hands-on training of ARICE project in Pilsen, Czech Republic

Within the ARICE project (Twinning for the Armenian Research Infrastructure on Cancer Research, twinning project of Horizon 2020, www.arice.am) project partners h ...read more


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June 24th, 2022

BBMRI.tr : The Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center (IBG) is searching for an ERA Chair

The Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center (IBG, www.ibg.edu.tr)) invites interested persons to apply for a position as an ERA Chair at IBG (project RareBoost #95234 ...read more


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June 22nd, 2022

Europe Biobank Week Roadshow 2022

On the Road to High Quality – With Biobanks in the Fast Lane! Regensburg: 19-20 September 2022 BBMRI-ERIC and ESBB invite you to the first Europe Biobank We ...read more


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June 22nd, 2022

BBMRI.de/German Bibank Node: New biobanks in the German Biobank Alliance

The Central Biobank Erlangen (CeBE) is now a partner biobank of the GBA. Furthermore, the biobank alliance welcomes another six biobanks as observers in its netwo ...read more


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April 25th, 2022

BBMRI.pl: First in Europe ISO 20387:2018 assessment in accreditation programme took place in Poland

Wroclaw Medical University Biobank (WMU Biobank), one of the leading BBMRI.pl biobanks, responsible for implementation of common QMS solutions in the Polish Bioba ...read more


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March 8th, 2022

BBMRI-ERIC Statement on Ukraine with ERIC Forum

8 March 2022 Dear valued colleagues and friends of BBMRI, The last several days have been shocking and frightening due to Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine. U ...read more


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February 10th, 2022

BBMRI.cz – Success story published in Nature Communication: New diagnostic method for detection of early-stage pancreatic cancer

Bank of Biological Materials at Masaryk Memorial Cancer institute (BBM MMCI) significantly contributed to the research focused on the development of a new sensiti ...read more


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February 3rd, 2022

BBMRI virtual “tour” of headquarters for early career researchers

In collaboration with ARQUS European University Alliance, a group of 9 research universities in medium-sized cities, BBMRI-ERIC held a “virtual tour” ...read more


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January 27th, 2022

Meet Maike and Erica!

In January 2022, BBMRI-ERIC welcomed two new members to our headquarters team. Erica Andrade, Finance Officer, has a qualified degree in Business Administration a ...read more


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December 13th, 2021

Assembly of Members Elects New Steering Committee

At their semiannual meeting November 19th, 2021, the Assembly of Members of the Biobanking and BioMolecular resources Research Infrastructure – European Researc ...read more


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November 8th, 2021

Spain Joins European Biobanking Research Infrastructure as Observer Country

Graz, Austria – We are delighted to announce that the Kingdom of Spain has been officially confirmed as an Observer in BBMRI-ERIC. Spain has joined the Biobanki ...read more


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October 6th, 2021

3 Research Infrastructures launch comprehensive biomedical alliance EU-AMRI

BBMRI, EATRIS and ECRIN, the medical European research Infrastructures, supported by the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), have join ...read more


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August 2nd, 2021

Revolutionary findings with relevance for diagnostics: Algorithms are declaring war on cancer

Detecting cancer earlier and more precisely: Research at BBMRI.at partner Med Uni Graz paves the way for a completely new use of artificial intelligence in cancer ...read more


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June 30th, 2021

BBMRI-ERIC and National Nodes publish 2020 Annual Report

The past year has been dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has not only influenced planned activities but also stimulated rapid responses from the scientifi ...read more


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June 1st, 2021

The German Biobank Alliance (GBA) continues to grow

The German Biobank Alliance (GBA) welcomes 15 more biobanks to its network. Four years after ist foundation, the GBA thus encompasses biobanks at almost all Germa ...read more


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June 1st, 2021

BBMRI.tr: Biobanking education for future physicians

A functional biobank is highly dependent on the collaboration of healthcare professionals and researchers, along with other biobank professionals. However, there ...read more


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May 27th, 2021

German Biobank Node: Study on the usage of biobanks published

External communication and PR of biobanks should be improved! What would convince you to have biospecimens for your research project processed in a biobank, to st ...read more


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May 19th, 2021

German Biobank Node : English version of Quality Management manual extended

BBMRI.de, German Biobank Node (GBN), has revised its English version of QM manual GBN has revised and extended the English version of its manual for quality manag ...read more


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May 12th, 2021

Welcome Joanna, our new Executive Assistant!

On 15 April 2021, we welcomed Joanna Pucher to the BBMRI-ERIC Headquarters team. Joanna is our new Executive Assistant and will be based in our headquarters in Gr ...read more


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May 6th, 2021

THL Biobank’s Annual Report 2020 has been published

THL Biobank is a nationwide biobank that collects and stores valuable research samples from all over Finland. THL Biobank operates under the Finnish Institute for ...read more


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April 21st, 2021

First biobank quality mark in the BBMRI-ERIC Directory according to ISO 20387

It is truly a success for the BBMRI-ERIC network of biobanks. Our first biobank – Wroclaw Medical University Biobank (WMU Biobank) made a great effort ...read more


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April 16th, 2021

BBMRI.tr: ISO 20387 Biotechnology-Biobanking accreditation workshop

The functionality, sustainability and continuous development of biobanks is only possible through the implementation of biobank quality standards. In terms of nat ...read more


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April 16th, 2021

Study on Covid-19 antibodies introduces biobank.cy to a wider audience

Greetings from a blossoming Cyprus, as the sunshine returns to signal the beginning of the spring season! Despite the Covid-19 restrictions of December-March, our ...read more


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March 8th, 2021

Report on the assessment of the EU Member States’ rules on health data in the light of GDPR

In the context of the Single Framework Contract Chafea/2018/Health/03 between the EUHealthSupport Consortium and the Consumers, Health and Food Executive Agency ...read more


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March 3rd, 2021

BBMRI.se: Biobank Sweden contributes to COVID-19 Database

The Swedish Research Council-funded research infrastructure Biobank Sweden supports healthcare providers and universities with medical faculties working towards n ...read more


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February 15th, 2021

Federated Platform Call for Tender

The goal of the tender is to provide BBMRI-ERIC with a platform that will support federated search for samples, querying of data sets and support for federated da ...read more


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February 9th, 2021

Check our Work Programme 2021

BBMRI-ERIC is happy to share its Work Programme 2021, now available to download via our website. We are excited to share with you our vision, goals and milestones ...read more


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February 4th, 2021

Exploiting CRC data to its full potential

The Swedish Research Council-funded research infrastructure Biobank Sweden supports healthcare providers and universities with medical faculties working towards n ...read more


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February 1st, 2021

The Cyprus Center of Excellence in Biobanking and Biomedical Research carries its study on Covid-19 antibodies to Limassol

As the dawn sets for 2021, our CoE team of staff has already started gearing up for engaging in new exciting endeavors that are encompassing more public campaigns ...read more


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January 21st, 2021

Apply by 31 Jan to become EMBL ARISE fellow

The new EMBL fellowship programme, ARISE, aims to offer fellowships to experienced professionals with a background in science, technology, engineering, or mathema ...read more


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January 4th, 2021

Take Survey on Use of Human Samples in Research

The CS IT user experience team is conducting a survey to better understand human sample users in our community. We are now offering a prize to the national node w ...read more


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December 21st, 2020

Marialuisa Lavitrano Appointed Director in the Board of Directors of EOSC Association

18/12/2020 – Marialuisa Lavitrano, BBMRI.it’s Director, appointed director with a three years mandate in the board of directors of EOSC Association to ...read more


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December 10th, 2020

ConcePTION: Creating Knowledge for Women

“Pregnant and breastfeeding women have long been overlooked in the medical research. Today, only about 5% of medications have adequate safety information on use ...read more


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December 10th, 2020

Biobank Sweden’s National COVID-19 Coordination

The Swedish Research Council-funded research infrastructure Biobank Sweden supports healthcare providers and universities with medical faculties working towards n ...read more


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December 10th, 2020

Biobank Sweden’s Legal Helpdesk Representatives

The Swedish Research Council-funded research infrastructure Biobank Sweden supports healthcare providers and universities with medical faculties working towards n ...read more


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December 10th, 2020

Strategic Expansion for Biobank Sweden

The Swedish Research Council-funded research infrastructure Biobank Sweden supports healthcare providers and universities with medical faculties working towards n ...read more


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December 9th, 2020

“The human body in scientific research and medical practice. A transdisciplinary approach”

BBMRI.pl has published a monograph “The human body in scientific research and medical practice. A transdisciplinary approach” edited by Jakub Pawlikow ...read more


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December 9th, 2020

Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre has launched a citizen science based initiative – Latvian Microbiome project

The aim of the project is to characterize the microbiome of the Latvian population, in addition to determining how the diet and lifestyle habits of the population ...read more


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December 9th, 2020

Hungary commits to join BBMRI in 2021

The Hungarian National Research Development and Innovation Office (NRDI Office) has published on November 24 its latest research infrastructures strategic documen ...read more


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November 10th, 2020

Remembering Professor Gert-Jan van Ommen

by Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, BBMRI-ERIC On 7 November 2020, the biobanking community lost a vocal member and passionate scientist with the passing of Professor Gert ...read more


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November 10th, 2020

The EC will launch the revision of the blood and tissues and cells legislations in 2021

The European Commission has announced that in 2021 it will launch the revision of the blood and tissues and cells legislations. The two legislations regulate: Bl ...read more


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October 28th, 2020

Survey: Characterising Researchers who use human samples

The BBMRI-ERIC CS IT are launching a brand new user survey! One of BBMRI-ERIC’s main users are the researchers who use human samples. But what is it they look f ...read more


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October 7th, 2020

CY-Biobank goes mobile, visiting the Cyprus mountains for donations

-Biobank goes mobile, visiting the Cyprus mountains for donations ….and we are back! The weeks leading up to the summer break in August and the beginning of the ...read more


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October 6th, 2020

BBMRI.QM: Updated versions of Self-Assessment Surveys now available

With the BBMRI-ERIC Self-Assessment Surveys (SAS) you can compare work processes in your biobank and sample collections with the requirements of European and inte ...read more


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October 6th, 2020

Polish National Node’s Central IT Platform

In September 2020, the Consortium BBMRI.pl, which is responsible for organizational and technical preparations for the Polish Biobanking Network, deployed the new ...read more


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October 5th, 2020

Interview of our Latvian Node Director, Jānis Klovinš, on Latvian national Radio 1

Listen to the interview in Latvian! https://lr1.lsm.lv/lv/raksts/monopols/molekularas-biologijas-profesors-janis-klovins.a133535/ Read the translation kindly prov ...read more


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September 24th, 2020

Discount on preanalytical ISO standards & ISO 15189 within BBMRI.QM training

The BBMRI.QM training and education programme starts on 6th October – don’t miss it! The countdown is running. Only 2 weeks left until the start of the BBMRI. ...read more


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September 23rd, 2020

BBMRI, EATRIS, ECRIN and ELIXIR publish statement on Horizon Europe Cancer Mission

Every European citizen is affected by cancer, either directly or indirectly. That is why the new Cancer Mission, promoted by the European Commission in the contex ...read more


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September 16th, 2020

CY-Biobank launches a new user-friendly website and announces new vacancies

Cyprus-based Center of Excellence (CoE thereafter) CY­-Biobank is in the pleasant position to announce the launch of its brand new, user-friendly website! The ne ...read more


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September 11th, 2020

Survey on Intellectual Property and Research

A lack of clarity has been identified around the topic of intellectual property rights (IPR) in the research context for the use of biological resources (i.e. bi ...read more


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September 10th, 2020

Meet our Team – Mónica Cano Abadía

This week, we’re getting to know Mónica Cano Abadía, one of our ELSI Services Officers. ELSI stands for Ethical, Legal and Societal Issues.  Hi, Mónica! ...read more


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August 24th, 2020

Meet our Team – Kaya Akyüz

This week, we’re getting to know Kaya Akyüz, one of our ELSI Services Officers. ELSI stands for Ethical, Legal and Societal Issues.  Hi, Kaya! What does a ...read more


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August 13th, 2020

VIDEO: Accelerate your COVID-19 research with European Life Science Research Infrastructures

Now, more than ever, biomedical research needs to be done with speed, efficiency, and high-quality standards in order to help patients effectively fight diseases ...read more


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August 4th, 2020

BBMRI-ERIC endorses Manifesto for EU COVID-19 Research

July 31, 2020 In 2020, the European Commission launched the MANIFESTO FOR EU COVID-19 RESEARCH. BBMRI-ERIC is among the 500+ institutions signing the manifesto. B ...read more


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June 10th, 2020

EASI-Genomics Extraordinary COVID-19 related Call

Timeline: Call open: 18.05.2020 14:00 CEST Proposal submission deadlines: 30.06.2020 20:00 CEST Notification to applicants: at the latest by 15.07.2020 Start of p ...read more


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June 4th, 2020

CY-Biobank reopens its doors to receive volunteer donors, following the March-April Covid-19 restrictions on movement – More security tests take place for upcoming new website

Following the temporary postponement of its services since the middle of March, as a result of the EU and Cyprus government restrictions of movement, as part of t ...read more


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June 2nd, 2020

EuCanImage will launch in October 2020 with BBMRI-ERIC on board

EuCanImage: A new large-scale international project funded by the European Commission to build a secure and federated imaging platform for next-generation artific ...read more


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May 18th, 2020

Recording of Webinar: COVID-19 and Ethical, Legal & Societal Issues

The recording of our webinar on COVID-19 and Ethical, Legal and Societal issues is now online! The webinar focused on the ethical issues encountered and addressed ...read more


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May 7th, 2020

Lithuania Joins the European Biobanking Research Infrastructure as Observer

Lithuania has officially joined the Biobanking and BioMolecular resources Research Infrastructure – European Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI-ERIC) ...read more


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May 7th, 2020

BIOBANK SWEDEN’S SAMPLE QUALITY INITIATIVES

The Swedish Research Council-funded research infrastructure Biobank Sweden supports healthcare providers and universities with medical faculties working towards n ...read more


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April 6th, 2020

Extension of Job Vacancy: Systems Administrator (Graz)

Want to put your IT skills to good use, supporting COVID-19 and other vital biomedical research? BBMRI-ERIC is hiring a Systems Administrator for our headquarters ...read more


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April 3rd, 2020

CY-Biobank offers its services to the Cyprus community in the battle against COVID-19

The team of the new Research and Innovation Center of Excellence (CoE thereafter) of the University of Cyprus in Biobanking and Biomedical Research analysed to th ...read more


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March 22nd, 2020

CEN AND CENELEC MAKE EUROPEAN STANDARDS AVAILABLE TO HELP ADDRESS COVID-19

PRESS RELEASE Brussels, 20 MARCH 2020 In response to the coronavirus outbreak, CEN, the European Committee for Standardization, and CENELEC, the European Committe ...read more


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February 27th, 2020

Job Vacancy: ELSI Services Officer (Graz)

BBMRI-ERIC is hiring an ELSI Services Officer to report to our headquarters in Graz, Austria. Download the vacancy note here or read on for details!   Job Ti ...read more


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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 more


BBMRI-ERIC’s IT and Data Protection Manager Petr Holub is spearheading BBMRI’s involvement in the H2020 project.   ...read more


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December 16th, 2019

EBW19 Photo Gallery

Europe Biobank Week 2019 is the largest European conference on biobanking, with over 600 attendees gathering to discuss the latest challenges and opportunities of ...read more


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December 16th, 2019

We’ve got brains – do you?

Enormous brain biobank is member of the Polish Biobanking Network The Polish Biobanking Network (PBN) was created in 2017 by the Consortium BBMRI.pl and since the ...read more


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December 16th, 2019

The 3rd Conference of Polish Biobanks – So Much is Going On!

On 6-8th November in University of Lodz, the 3rd National Scientific and Training Conference of Polish Biobanks took place. The conference was organized by BBMRI. ...read more


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December 16th, 2019

CY-Biobank: Towards the Establishment of a Research and Innovation Center of Excellence for Biobanking and Biomedical Research at the University of Cyprus

The archiving of biological material for studying the human genome (DNA) of Cypriot volunteers (healthy and patients’ cohorts) is under way, with the aim of dia ...read more


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December 12th, 2019

BBMRI-ERIC is hiring a Systems Administrator

Apply by January 31, 2020 and join the BBMRI-ERIC headquarters in Graz, Austria as Systems Administrator. Download the vacancy note here or read on for more inf ...read more


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November 21st, 2019

Erik Steinfelder gives TEDx talk on innovation at TEDxMedUniGraz

On September 13, 2019, the Medical University of Graz organized its first TEDx event. Speakers included BBMRI-ERIC Director General Erik Steinfelder, as well as K ...read more


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November 13th, 2019

Call for tender for the common service IT

The main objective of this call for tender is to propose continuation of the Common Service IT (CS IT) that provides expertise, services, and tools relevant to th ...read more


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November 13th, 2019

BBMRI-ERIC is hiring a Director General

Apply before December 13 and join our headquarters in Graz, Austria. Duration at least three years, with the possibility to be reappointed.   Who we are T ...read more


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October 29th, 2019

Deadline Extended for BBMRI-ERIC ELSI Services Officer Position

Deadline extended to November 13th! BBMRI-ERIC is looking for an ELSI Services Officer based in Austria to support our ELSI team on ethical, legal and societal is ...read more


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October 16th, 2019

Vacancy Note: BBMRI-ERIC ELSI Services Officer

BBMRI-ERIC is looking for an ELSI Services Officer based in Austria to support our ELSI team on ethical, legal and societal issues in biobanking and biomolecular ...read more


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October 15th, 2019

EBW19 Keynote Interview with Olli Kallioniemi, Director of the Swedish SciLifeLab

10/10/2019 As keynote speaker of the Europe Biobank Week 2019, Olli Kallioniemi talked about research successes, which he was able to achieve by using multilayer ...read more


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September 10th, 2019

BIOBANK SWEDEN CALLS FOR LEGAL RECONSIDERATION

The Swedish Research Council-funded research infrastructure Biobank Sweden, a National Node of BBMRI-ERIC, supports healthcare providers and universities with med ...read more


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September 10th, 2019

BIOBANK SWEDEN AT ALMEDALEN WEEK

The Swedish Research Council-funded research infrastructure Biobank Sweden supports healthcare providers and universities with medical faculties working towards n ...read more


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Webinar 30 Sep 2019

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


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August 9th, 2019

Updates to the Code of Conduct for Health Research

Our ELSI team has been busy working on the Code of Conduct for Health Research website. Stay up-to-date by reviewing the latest today. ...read more


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Webinar 26 Aug 2019

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


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Webinar 26 Jun 2019

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


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June 4th, 2019

Describing samples and sample donors: The first version of a new MIABIS extension is ready

A long and fruitful group effort has led to the first version of a new MIABIS extension for describing biobank samples and sample donors. The working group includ ...read more


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May 29th, 2019

Handbook for Biomarkers and Precision Medicine Published

May 29, 2019 Edited by Claudio Carini, Mark Fidock and Alain van Gool, Handbook for Biomarkers and Precision Medicine was recently published by Taylor & Fran ...read more


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May 29th, 2019

Call for Abstracts Extended to May 30 for Europe Biobank Week 2019 in Lübeck

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


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Webinar 03 Jun 2019

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


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May 16th, 2019

IT & Data Protection Manager Petr Holub Speaks at the Czech Senate

On May 14, 2019, BBMRI-ERIC’s IT & Data Protection Manager Petr Holub spoke at the Senate of the Czech Republic in Prague during the fourth annual Natio ...read more


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May 15th, 2019

Biobanking Art Exhibit Opens in Vienna

LATENT BONES: An Exhibition in two parts by Art & Science first year Master Students in collaboration with BBMRI-ERIC   The exhibition “latent bones” ...read more


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May 2nd, 2019

New Publications from CORBEL

New publications in the CORBEL context In the context of the CORBEL work package on Cross-Infrastructure Medical Research, three articles were recently published ...read more


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Paris 20 May 2019

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


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April 26th, 2019

Quality Standards for Polish Biobanks: New guidelines for biobanking institutions already available in Poland!

Wroclaw Medical University, as a member of the BBMRI.pl consortium, is responsible for the task “Verification of SOPs that exist in Polish biobanking instit ...read more


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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


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April 16th, 2019

ADOPT BBMRI-ERIC COLLECTS OVER 10,000 COLORECTAL CANCER DATASETS FOR RESEARCH

ADOPT BBMRI-ERIC has just completed: our pilot project is a resounding success! Using 25 biobanks from 12 of our Member Countries, BBMRI-ERIC was able to create a ...read more


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April 9th, 2019

BBMRI-ERIC and SPIDIA4P Discuss Academia-Industry Partnerships at the European Parliament

Academia-Industry Research Partnership Showcases Role of Standards in Personalised Medicine to European Decision Makers The event organised by BBMRI-ERIC and SPID ...read more


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April 4th, 2019

Vacancy Note: Legal Officer

Job Title: Legal Officer Job Location: The central executive management office of BBMRI-ERIC in Graz, Austria Duration: 2 years with the possibility of extension ...read more


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April 4th, 2019

Biobank Sweden’s Scientific Advisory Board meet with the Steering Committee

The Swedish Research Council-funded research infrastructure Biobank Sweden supports healthcare providers and universities with medical faculties working towards n ...read more


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December 11th, 2018

BBMRI-ERIC Work Programme & Vision Paper

With the year drawing to a close, we thought we would share our plans for the new year and our vision beyond 2019 with you. While the Work Programme 2019 describe ...read more


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December 8th, 2018

The Final Rule in the U.S. and Its Implications for Biobank Research

Since the Common Rule was developed in the 1990s, the landscape and volume of research activities have changed dramatically. This growth and expansion of human su ...read more


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December 5th, 2018

Europe Biobank Week 2019

Europe Biobank Week 2019 will take place in Lübeck, Germany, from October 8 until 11. More details on the speakers, the programme, etc. will follow soon. Subscri ...read more


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November 27th, 2018

Assembly of Members Approves Work Programme 2019

BBMRI-ERIC held its 12th Assembly of Members in Breukelen, the Netherlands, on November 13, 2018. The Assembly of Members is one of the governing bodies of BBMRI- ...read more


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November 26th, 2018

Data Management: A Critical Step in Genomics Research

Genetic profiles of patients suffering from cancer or a rare disease are routinely created and interpreted nowadays. It is not uncommon for patients to have their ...read more


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November 23rd, 2018

BBMRI.at presents: the KIWI Cohort

This month, our Austrian Node, BBMRI.at, presents an outstanding sample collection hosted by Biobank Graz. The KIWI* cohort consists of body fluids and data that ...read more


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November 23rd, 2018

GBN and GBA Receive Feedback from SEAB

“The SEAB congratulates GBN and GBA for their extraordinary achievements and the work completed over the past year,” said Dr Fay Betsou at the meeting of the ...read more


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November 22nd, 2018

Using Data in Medical Research: the Latvian Experience

On 16 November 2018, the Latvian National Node of BBMRI-ERIC, BBMRI.LV, organised a seminar titled “Use of data in medical research in Latvia: experience and fu ...read more


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November 22nd, 2018

Governing Research-Based Biobanks in Latvia

In November, the Institute for Clinical and Preventive Medicine at the University of Latvia received a grant from the Latvian Council of Science for a project tit ...read more


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November 21st, 2018

Join our Team in Graz

Our team continues to grow, which is why we are currently on the lookout for a Quality Management Officer as well as a Finance Officer. BBMRI-ERIC offers fringe b ...read more


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November 21st, 2018

Uppsala Health Summit Report

All over the world, the number of new cancer cases increases at a pace which will pose enormous strains on all healthcare systems if we continue to ignore the war ...read more


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November 20th, 2018

GBA and GBN Organise Stakeholder Workshop

Do biomaterial donors want to be informed of research findings achieved using their samples? What do patients think of possible online portals that allow them to ...read more


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November 20th, 2018

GBN Publishes Quality Management Manual

The German Biobank Node (GBN) has published its QM manual – the manual for quality management in biobanking. It is freely available as an “open access”  p ...read more


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November 16th, 2018

BBMRI.at Raises Awareness for Sample Quality

BBMRI.at, our Austrian National Node, has been working tirelessly to raise awareness on the importance of quality standards and appropriate sample quality managem ...read more


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October 30th, 2018

Spotlight on: BBMRI.it

Our news section takes us to Italy this month, where our Italian Node reports on its most recent activities.   BBMRI.it at Meet in Italy for Life Sciences in ...read more


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October 29th, 2018

BBMRI-NL: ENABLING FAIR DATA MANAGEMENT

MOLGENIS Research can help even non-bioinformaticians (!) enable FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable data) data management and is freely avail ...read more


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October 25th, 2018

European Biotech Week 2018: Playing biobank card games

Organising an initiative together with A.Li.Sa., the regional health authority, Ligurian biobanks returned to European Biotech Week this year. Taking place from ...read more


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October 25th, 2018

GBA presents pilot tool for sample search

The German Biobank Alliance (GBA) has come a decisive step closer to enabling scientists to search for biomaterial samples and associated data online across multi ...read more


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October 25th, 2018

Biobank Sweden Launches ELSI Helpdesk

The Swedish Research Council-funded research infrastructure Biobank Sweden supports healthcare providers and universities with medical faculties working towards n ...read more


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October 23rd, 2018

BBMRI-NL OMICS NOMINATED FOR DUTCH DATA PRIZE

The dataset ‘BBMRI-OMICS: molecular big data for discovering disease mechanisms and biomarkers’ has been nominated by the jury of the Dutch Data Prize. BBMRI- ...read more


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October 17th, 2018

ADOPT BBMRI-ERIC project extended

Following a request from the project consortium, the European Commission recently decided to extend the duration of the ADOPT BBMRI-ERIC project for an additional ...read more


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October 15th, 2018

Latvian Biobank Network Collections Pass Self-Assessment Survey

Several endocrinology research sample collections from the Latvian National Biobank Genome Database of Latvian Population recently passed the BBMRI-ERIC Self-Asse ...read more


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October 8th, 2018

GBN and GBA at Europe Biobank Week

Europe Biobank Week 2018 took place in Antwerp on 4–7 September. It was attended by 640 international participants. The German Biobank Node (GBN) had a presen ...read more


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October 5th, 2018

GBA biobanks carry out ring trial

Biobanks of the German Biobank Alliance (GBA) have conducted a ring trial to review their individual measurement procedures for tissue biobanking, improve their p ...read more


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October 4th, 2018

German Biobank Node shares satisfaction survey results

“Products, cooperation and networking within GBA – tell us about your experience!” – during an internal online survey, members of the German Biobank Allia ...read more


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October 3rd, 2018

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


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September 25th, 2018

Laurent Dollé wins EBW Presidents’ Award for Drone4Care

Laurent Dollé, Business Developer at Drone4Care, won a Presidents’ Award for the best scientific idea pitch at Europe Biobank Week 2018. Reporting back fr ...read more


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September 24th, 2018

RItrain: from an EU project to an Executive Masters

Discover EMMRI and its Open Programme: The goal of RItrain, an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project, is to improve and professionalise training for research infrastruct ...read more


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September 24th, 2018

European Biotech Week

European Biotech Week celebrates biotechnology as an innovative and vibrant sector launched by the discovery of the DNA molecule back in 1953.  The event compris ...read more


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September 24th, 2018

BBMRI.it at Europe Biobank Week 2018

With the support of BBMRI.it, several Italian biobanks presented their work at Europe Biobank Week in Antwerp this year. In total, BBMRI.it and Italian biobanks ...read more


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September 24th, 2018

BBMRI.at reports back from Europe Biobank Week

All BBMRI.at partner biobanks attended Europe Biobank Week 2018. Biobanks and the BBMRI.at consortium partners presented their achievements and their work in dif ...read more


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September 21st, 2018

CORBEL Innovation Helpdesk

The CORBEL Innovation Helpdesk is available to assist the European Biological and Medical Research Infrastructures with collaboration with industry and technology ...read more


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September 21st, 2018

CORBEL 2nd Open Call

CORBEL  – Coordinated Research Infrastructures Building Enduring Life-science services – is a Horizon2020 project uniting 13 European Biological and Medical ...read more


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September 21st, 2018

Biothèque Wallonie Bruxelles launches new website

Biothèque Wallonie Bruxelles (BWB ) is an inter-university collaboration platform open to all biobanks in the Brussels and Wallonia region to support applied ...read more


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September 20th, 2018

Biobank Sweden holds round table talks

The Swedish Research Council-funded research infrastructure Biobank Sweden supports healthcare providers and universities with medical faculties working towards n ...read more


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September 19th, 2018

MERIL database now open to national RIs

The MERIL-2 project continues to evolve in line with the needs of its users and stakeholders. As part of this evolution, the MERIL database now accepts nomination ...read more


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September 19th, 2018

BBMRI-ERIC, EATRIS and ECRIN release joint statement on Horizon Europe

BBMRI-ERIC, EATRIS and ECRIN released a joint statement on Horizon Europe last week. Speaking at ICRI 2018, the International Conference for Research Infrastruct ...read more


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September 18th, 2018

MERIL launches new Visualisation Tool

MERIL (Mapping of the European Research Infrastructure Landscape) has introduced an additional data visualisation tool that allows you to discover the MERIL data ...read more


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September 18th, 2018

Transferring biobank research data between the EU and African countries

Despite the fact that the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides ways to transfer data, it is difficult to find ways to share data between Eu ...read more


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August 30th, 2018

BBMRI-ERIC launches new webinar series

We are very pleased to announce that we are launching a new webinar series on quality management. Anyone who is interested in quality management issues in biobank ...read more


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August 25th, 2018

Join the RD-Connect Community

RD-Connect is an integrated platform connecting databases, registries, biobanks and clinical bioinformatics for rare disease research. It provides user-friendly t ...read more


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August 24th, 2018

PhenoMeNal team releases “Dalcotidine”

The PhenoMeNal release team is happy to announce its 2018.08 release “Dalcotidine”. The release focuses on stability, the introduction of new tools and work ...read more


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August 24th, 2018

BBMRI-ERIC 2017 Annual Report

BBMRI-ERIC has published its Annual Report for 2017, highlighting the key achievements last year. In addition to a detailed section on BBMRI-ERIC’s main act ...read more


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August 23rd, 2018

NEW SAMPLE ACCESS GUIDE FROM BIOBANK SWEDEN

The Swedish Research Council-funded research infrastructure Biobank Sweden supports healthcare providers and universities with medical faculties working towards n ...read more


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August 23rd, 2018

The PoC Osteo Cohort: collecting osteoporosis samples

Within the framework of the PoCOsteo Horizon 2020 project, BBMRI.at partner Biobank Graz started collecting osteoporosis samples earlier this year. The project ...read more


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August 22nd, 2018

BIOBANK SWEDEN AT EUROPE BIOBANK WEEK IN ANTWERP

The Swedish Research Council-funded research infrastructure Biobank Sweden supports healthcare providers and universities with medical faculties working towards n ...read more


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August 22nd, 2018

BBMRI.at successfully organised course on CEN and ISO Standards

Organised by the Graz Institute of Pathology, SPIDIA4P, QIAGEN and BBMRI.at, the course raised awareness about the existence and relevance of the CEN Technical Sp ...read more


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August 21st, 2018

Second on-site training session for technical assistants

The second on-site training session for technical staff from biobanks of the German Biobank Alliance (GBA) was held in Heidelberg on 16 June and 10 July. Due to ...read more


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August 7th, 2018

BBMRI-ERIC and BBMRI.uk launch Interoperability Forum

BBMRI-ERIC has built a reputation for building open source tooling that can support biobanks being integrated into a wider discovery framework. The UK Node of BBM ...read more


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August 6th, 2018

STRONG LINEUP AT EUROPE BIOBANK WEEK

The organisers of Europe Biobank Week are pleased to announce that Dr. Maggie De Block, Belgian Federal Minister of Social Affairs and Health, and Dr. Philippe De ...read more


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July 30th, 2018

CORBEL 2nd Open Call for research projects

CORBEL – Coordinated Research Infrastructures Building Enduring Life-science services – is a Horizon2020 project uniting 13 European Biological and Medical Sc ...read more


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July 30th, 2018

BBMRI.PL: THE POLISH BIOBANKING NETWORK

The Polish Biobanking Network was initiated in 2017 and the BBMRI.pl team has been busy ever since. Identifying potential partners First and foremost, the Medical ...read more


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July 27th, 2018

Training programme for GBA auditors launched

During a three-day workshop held in Berlin in mid-June, prospective auditors from the German Biobank Alliance (GBA) familiarised themselves with the theoretical p ...read more


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July 18th, 2018

Dutch ELSI Servicedesk officially launched

On July 9, 2018, the Dutch ELSI (Ethical, Legal and Social Implications) Servicedesk was officially launched. This online Servicedesk (in Dutch) offers guidance a ...read more


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July 16th, 2018

BBMRI-ERIC joins RESAVER

 What is RESAVER? RESAVER is the first multi-country, multi-employer pension solution that aims to enhance the cross-border mobility of researchers. It enables e ...read more


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July 13th, 2018

IBBL launches Findmyassay

IBBL recently announced the launch of Findmyassay.com, a new online tool that allows researchers to check the quality of their biological samples and improve the ...read more


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July 6th, 2018

FAQ on the GDPR available in Polish

We are pleased to announce that the FAQ on the GDPR, one of our most popular downloads, are available in Polish now. Click here for our FAQ on the GDPR in Polish ...read more


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June 23rd, 2018

Uniform QM software for GBA biobanks

In future, biobanks of the German Biobank Alliance (GBA) will use uniform software for quality management. The program features modules to manage documents and pr ...read more


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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


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June 23rd, 2018

Zisis Kozlakidis New Head of IARC Lab Services and Biobank Group

Dr Zisis Kozlakidis, Past President of the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER), has been appointed Head of the Laboratory ...read more


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June 21st, 2018

“BioPersMed cohort” – 1st BBMRI.at sample collection portrait

“BioPersMed cohort”: an outstanding interdisciplinary sample collection at Biobank Graz “BioPersMed” stands for “Biomarkers for Per ...read more


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June 20th, 2018

BBMRI.at Success Story

Risk of burnout can be estimated by analysing saliva samples A major goal of biobanks is to support researchers with their work by collecting, handling and/or sto ...read more


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June 20th, 2018

Biobank Sweden’s National Sample Service Coordinators in Place

The Swedish Research Council-funded research infrastructure Biobank Sweden supports healthcare providers and universities with medical faculties working towards n ...read more


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June 5th, 2018

Apply now for the MBA in Research Infrastructure Management

Develop your skills for leading research infrastructures with a global impact. Apply now for EMMRI – the Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastruct ...read more


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May 28th, 2018

Biobank Sweden Appoints National IT and Operations Group

The Swedish Research Council-funded research infrastructure Biobank Sweden supports healthcare providers and universities with medical faculties working towards n ...read more


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May 28th, 2018

GBN workshop on legal regulations on incidental findings

Should biomaterial donors be informed of a BRCA mutation, which could trigger breast cancer, if this is discovered as an incidental finding in a study, for exampl ...read more


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May 28th, 2018

Biobanking Workshop and Symposium in Izmir

An international workshop titled “Biobanking for Rare Diseases” and a symposium titled “Bridging Biobanks in MENA Countries to Promote Research and ...read more


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May 24th, 2018

Two National Biobank Strategy Coordinators for Biobank Sweden

The Swedish Research Council-funded research infrastructure Biobank Sweden supports healthcare providers and universities with medical faculties working towards n ...read more


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May 23rd, 2018

BBMRI Poland holds national conference

Co-organised by the Independent Medical Sociology Unit, the Department of Ethics and Human Philosophy and the BBMRI.pl consortium, a national conference titled Th ...read more


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May 23rd, 2018

Share your biobanking brochures with BWB

By Biothèque Wallonie Bruxelles Biobanks help researchers gain access to human samples. By studying these samples, researchers hope to find new ways to detect, ...read more


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April 23rd, 2018

Austrian biobanks declare sample quality

Med Uni Wien Biobank and Biobank Graz, both part of BBMRI.at, have recently evaluated additional sample collections using the BBMRI-ERIC Self-Assessment Survey fo ...read more


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April 19th, 2018

GDPR: Final Guidelines on Consent and Transparency

The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party (WP 29) published the final Guidelines on Consent under Regulation 2016/679 (wp259) on Friday last week and the one ...read more


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April 19th, 2018

CORBEL: 2nd Open Call for Research Projects

BBMRI-ERIC is excited to be participating in the CORBEL 2nd Open Call for research projects. CORBEL is looking for innovative research projects at the interface b ...read more


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April 18th, 2018

Data in Question survey receives 400 responses

What social, ethical and legal challenges do researchers and stakeholders in the field of biobanking face that impact practices related to the handling and sharin ...read more


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April 17th, 2018

EMBL webinar series on Lifelong Learning

The recordings from the first four webinars from the EMBL webinar series on Lifelong Learning in the Biomedical Sciences are available to view: Education, Traini ...read more


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April 16th, 2018

Meet Vitomir, our new Systems Administrator

The BBMRI-ERIC team is pleased to welcome Vitomir Horvat as our new Systems Administrator, joining us at our office in Graz, Austria. Vitomir graduated with a deg ...read more


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April 13th, 2018

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


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April 4th, 2018

Ethical review of biobank-based research in Italy

BBMRI.it, our Italian National Node, recently co-developed two key ELSI matrices for good practice in biobanking research. At the same time, an agreement with the ...read more


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April 3rd, 2018

CliniMARK COST Action meeting in Cascais, Portugal

The Human Genetics Department of the National Health Institute Doutor Ricardo Jorge organised a conference on good biomarker practice in Cascais, Portugal, from ...read more


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March 26th, 2018

BBMRI-ERIC and ISBER sign Memorandum of Understanding

In March 2018, ISBER and BBMRI-ERIC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) strengthening the collaboration between the two organisations. The idea to consolid ...read more


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March 22nd, 2018

Pre-application for EMMRI is open

Develop your skills for leading research infrastructures with a global impact. Apply now for EMMRI – the Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastruct ...read more


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March 21st, 2018

Biobanking and Pathology Workshop for Children

Who knows what a biobank is and does? What about a pathology institute? These were some of the questions addressed at a workshop organised by BBMRI.at and the Ins ...read more


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March 20th, 2018

Newly Appointed Scientific Advisory Board for Biobank Sweden

The Swedish Research Council-funded research infrastructure Biobank Sweden supports healthcare providers and universities with medical faculties working towards n ...read more


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March 15th, 2018

RItrain webinar series

Learn from experienced leaders in research infrastructures through our series of webinars.  RItrain is developing a series of webinars featuring leading personn ...read more


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March 12th, 2018

BBMRI.pl presents draft code of conduct for Polish biobanks

BBMRI.pl, our Polish National Node, is currently working with the Polish Inspector General for the Protection of Personal Data (PIGPPD) to prepare a code of condu ...read more


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March 6th, 2018

Bio-informatics workshop

The Malta Biobank (BBMRI.mt / EuroMED) team organised a 4-day bio-informatics workshop from 15th to 18th January, hosting Heimo Müller from BBMRI-ERIC’s Commo ...read more


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February 26th, 2018

BIOBANK SWEDEN – A SPOTLIGHT ON NEWLY LAUNCHED RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS

As previously reported, Sweden’s new national biobanking infrastructure, Biobank Sweden, got underway in January. A Swedish Research Council-funded research inf ...read more


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February 26th, 2018

CORBEL News Issue No. 6

Find out all the latest news on CORBEL, an H2020 cluster project uniting 13 European biological and medical research infrastructures. The current CORBEL newslett ...read more


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February 22nd, 2018

GBN launches revamped newsletter

German Biobank Node has just sent out its first newsletter this year, featuring a completely revamped design. This issue is only available in German at the moment ...read more


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February 21st, 2018

SBP launches consultation on biobank governance documents

In its mission to help biobanks comply with applicable standards, SBP will soon provide them with templates to support them in their efforts to build strong gove ...read more


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February 14th, 2018

Meet Viridiana, our new secretary

The BBMRI-ERIC team is excited to welcome Viridiana Beltrán Venegas as our new Secretary, joining us at our office in Graz, Austria. Originally from Saltillo, Me ...read more


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February 6th, 2018

ID-EPTRI project kick-off

ID-EPTRI, a new project that aims at establishing a research infrastructure for the development of improved paediatric medicines, kicked off in Rome on the 15th a ...read more


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February 6th, 2018

EDPS Ethics Advisory Group 2018 report

The European Data Protection Supervisor Ethics Advisory Group has published a report on the GDPR, identifying and describing “the most crucial issues for th ...read more


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February 2nd, 2018

ISBER Best Practices 4th Edition

The ISBER Best Practices: Recommendations for Repositories Fourth Edition presents the most effective practices for the management of biological and environmental ...read more


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February 1st, 2018

News from our British Node

Read the latest news in biobanking from the Tissue Directory and Coordination Centre, the UK and beyond. Read more… ...read more


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January 29th, 2018

BBMRI.be sends out its first newsletter

The first BBMRI.be newsletter is now available. Click here to find out what our Belgian Node has been up to recently. ...read more


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January 29th, 2018

Biobank Sweden launches successfully

January 2018 saw the start-up of Sweden’s new national biobanking infrastructure, Biobank Sweden. Healthcare providers and universities with medical faculties a ...read more


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January 26th, 2018

SPIDIA4P newsletter out now

The first SPIDIA4P (Standardisation of generic Pre-analytical Procedures for In vitro DIAgnostics for Personalised Medicine) newsletter of this year has just beco ...read more


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January 26th, 2018

Call for Examples ‘How Biobanking Makes a Difference in Society’

How does biobanking help to improve individual health(care)? What is the added value of biobanking? What has been achieved and made possible as a result of bioba ...read more


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January 25th, 2018

ISO Working Group meets in Berlin

Our Quality Manager, Andrea Wutte, was at the 10th meeting of the ISO Technical Committee 276 Working Group, “Biobanks and Bioresources”, which took place in ...read more


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January 24th, 2018

BBMRI-ERIC replies to public consultation

BBMRI-ERIC has recently submitted its comments on the Article 29 Working Party Guidelines on Consent under Regulation 2016/679 (wp259) and Transparency under Regu ...read more


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January 23rd, 2018

Image/video competition

Euro-BioImaging (EuBI), a European research infrastructure for biological and medical imaging technologies, has launched an image/video competition. There are thr ...read more


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January 23rd, 2018

New calls for RItrain Staff Exchanges

Applications for a new RItrain Staff Exchange hosted by EATRIS are now open. There are currently four different Staff Exchange opportunities:   Governance, ...read more


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January 16th, 2018

Second BBMRI.at-internal QM cross audit

MedUni Wien Biobank successfully completed a quality management audit by peers from Graz, VetMedUni Vienna and BBMRI-ERIC based on the international QM standard ...read more


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January 15th, 2018

RItrain Staff Exchange

The purpose of RItrain Knowledge / Staff Exchanges is for managerial staff from European research infrastructures to learn from managerial and leadership best pra ...read more


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January 11th, 2018

EMBL webinar series

Hear from leading speakers about the latest thinking on successful professional development in a new free webinar series. The subject of the first webinar on Febr ...read more


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January 3rd, 2018

Open-source software for biobankers

Between 28 and 30 November 2017, BBMRI-ERIC, BBMRI.at and B3Africa co-organised a training workshop on open-source biobanking software in Lyon, France. Attracting ...read more


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December 21st, 2017

New EMA information for drug development within H2020

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has updated the set of information it provides to drug developers working within the context of clinical trials funded via Hor ...read more


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December 21st, 2017

Vodafone Malta Foundation donates €100,000 to RIDT

The Vodafone Malta Foundation and the University of Malta have signed an agreement to facilitate cutting-edge research that explores the causes and treatments for ...read more


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December 21st, 2017

Survey on ELSI challenges in biobank-based research

The Data in Question survey consists of 25 questions on some of the challenges of obtaining and sharing biological samples and data for research purposes in bioba ...read more


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December 21st, 2017

German Biobank Symposium

The 6th National Biobank Symposium was held in Berlin from 6 to 7 December 2017, bringing together 260 biobank experts to discuss the latest developments in biob ...read more


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December 21st, 2017

Public Consultation on WP29 Guidelines on Consent (GDPR)

The Article 29 Working Party has adopted a document titled “Guidelines on Consent under Regulation 2016/679” to clarify the requirements of the EU GDP ...read more


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December 21st, 2017

Code of Conduct for Health Research

The Drafting Group met for the second time face to face on 22-23 November 2017 in Paris. The aim of the meeting was to first and foremost to share findings and f ...read more


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December 21st, 2017

FinnGen: unique global research project launches in Finland

A unique study combining genome information with digital healthcare data has been launched in Finland. The FinnGen study plans to analyse up to 500 000 unique blo ...read more


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December 20th, 2017

EMBRC Biobank project launch

The kick-off meeting for the European Marine Biological Resource Centre Biobank (EBB) project took place in Vigo on the 21st and 22nd of November 2017. The main o ...read more


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December 20th, 2017

ID-EPTRI: New project set to launch in January 2018

ID-EPTRI (European Paediatric Translational Research Infrastructure), a project coordinated by CVBF and submitted within the INFRADEV-2016-2017 single-stage call ...read more


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December 13th, 2017

Applications open for RItrain Staff Exchanges

The purpose of RItrain Knowledge / Staff Exchanges is for managerial staff from European research infrastructures to learn from managerial and leadership best pra ...read more


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December 12th, 2017

Swiss Biobanking Platform releases pre-analytical datasets for consultation

Swiss Biobanking Platform just released two pre-analytical datasets (liquid & tissue) for consultation that Swiss biobanks are recommended to use. The dataset ...read more


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December 5th, 2017

Meet Anna-Liisa, our new secretary

The BBMRI-ERIC team is delighted to welcome Anna-Liisa Kuslap as our new Secretary, joining us at the BBMRI-ERIC Central Executive Management Office in Graz, Aust ...read more


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November 30th, 2017

BBMRI.uk October – November newsletter

The UKCRC Tissue Directory and Coordination Centre October – November newsletter is now available. It includes reports on the UK Biobanking Showcase and a nice ...read more


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November 30th, 2017

GDPR Code of Conduct for Health Research and Implications for FP9

BBRMI-ERIC has been working tirelessly to understand the future of health research in the changing panorama of data governance and EU funding. As part of this eff ...read more


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November 30th, 2017

Europe Biobank Week 2018: Biosharing for Scientific Discovery

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 t ...read more


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November 30th, 2017

BBMRI-NL November newsletter out now

The new BBMRI-NL newsletter is now available, including updates on a new web application for GDPR records, data protection impact assessment (DPIA) and compliance ...read more


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November 27th, 2017

Self-Assessment Survey for biobanks and sample collections

BBMRI-ERIC’s Quality Management reached an important milestone earlier this year: a self-assessment survey for biobanks and sample collections located in BBMRI- ...read more


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November 27th, 2017

Biobanks in personalised medicine

Representatives from both BBMRI-ERIC and BBMRI.at recently attended the Austrian Platform for Personalized Medicine Inaugural Event and Symposium in Vienna to par ...read more


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November 24th, 2017

Making sense of genetic risk

By Anna Holm The likelihood of disease is not always informative to research participants. The numeric sense of genetic risk does not always correspond to their u ...read more


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November 22nd, 2017

CORBEL launches service catalogue

CORBEL, a H2020 cluster project uniting 13 European biological and medical research infrastructures, has launched its Catalogue of Services. CORBEL aims to create ...read more


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November 20th, 2017

First ERIC Forum Meeting in Graz, Austria

On November 16 and 17, BBMRI hosted the first ERIC Forum meeting in Graz, Austria. Representatives from all operational as well as from future European Research ...read more


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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


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October 25th, 2017

New RItrain surveys available

Two new surveys looking at training needs of managers of research infrastructures are now available. The results will be used for the purposes of the RItrain staf ...read more


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October 25th, 2017

BBMRI-ERIC paves the way to new era in biobanking

BBMRI-ERIC Quality Manager Andrea Wutte and Senior Advisor Jan-Eric Litton presented a poster at Global Biobank Week 2017 to highlight a new milestone in biobanki ...read more


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October 25th, 2017

News from our Polish Node

For Polish biobankers, October was a month full of meetings related to biobanking. For the first time in its history, the Polish Node organised a BBMRI-ERIC Manag ...read more


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October 25th, 2017

BBMRI.pl conference attracts more than 180 participants

The First Scientific and Training Conference of Polish Biobanks took place from 13 to 14 October 2017 at Wroclaw Medical University. The event was organised by th ...read more


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October 25th, 2017

BBMRI.at biobanks among the first with collections meeting CEN/TS requirements

All BBMRI.at biobanks have started to evaluate their collections with respect to the CEN/TS requirements using the BBMRI-ERIC Self-Assessment Survey. Two BBMRI.a ...read more


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October 25th, 2017

Uppsala workshop on Public Private Partnerships

A report on the outcomes of a Public Private Partnership stakeholder workshop that took place at Uppsala University last year was recently published. EU grant fun ...read more


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October 25th, 2017

UK Biobanking Showcase

The UK Biobanking Showcase, organised by the UKCRC Tissue Directory and Coordination Centre (BBMRI.uk), is the UK’s annual event covering the latest development ...read more


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October 25th, 2017

New B3Africa Newsletter available

The latest issue of the B3Africa Newsletter features updates on current B3Africa activities and interesting reports on testing the eB3Kit in real-life settings. R ...read more


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October 25th, 2017

German Biobank Node newsletter out now

The German Biobank Node’s quarterly newsletter is out now, including a nice piece about Erik Steinfelder being appointed new Director General of BBMRI-ERIC. Oth ...read more


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October 25th, 2017

Austrian Platform for Personalized Medicine: Inaugural Event

Representatives from both BBMRI-ERIC and BBMRI.at attended the Austrian Platform for Personalized Medicine Inaugural Event and Symposium in Vienna last week to pa ...read more


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October 13th, 2017

Global Biobank Week 2017 – as it happened

Global Biobank Week 2017, the first biobanking conference on a global scale, took place between September 13 and 15 this year. Co-organised by BBMRI-ERIC, ESBB, ...read more


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September 28th, 2017

Estonian Biobank to provide personalised feedback to biobank participants

About Estonian Biobank Estonian Biobank (EGCUT) is a population-based longitudinal biobank established in 2000 and representing about 5% of Estonia’s adult popu ...read more


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September 28th, 2017

BBMRI.at at Global Biobank Week 2017 in Stockholm

Several BBMRI.at representatives attended Global Biobank Week 2017 in Stockholm between September 13 and 15. They all actively engaged in the event, presenting p ...read more


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September 25th, 2017

BBMRI-ERIC, BBMRI.at and Biobank Graz: biobanking hotspot Graz

Austrian broadcaster ORF Steiermark recently did a report on the pioneering work done by Biobank Graz, BBMRI.at and BBMRI-ERIC – all of which are based in G ...read more


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September 22nd, 2017

First module of Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastructures successfully delivered

The Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastructures has been successfully launched, with the first module delivered between September 20 and 22. The c ...read more


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September 22nd, 2017

BBMRI-ERIC Horizon scanning survey: 5 quick questions to help us help you

The BBMRI-ERIC Common Service ELSI has prepared a very brief survey to find out what you think are the important ethical, legal, and policy issues facing biobanki ...read more


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September 22nd, 2017

NanomedTAB – free-of-charge mentoring programme for nanomedicine: application deadline extended

NanomedTAB, the Nanomedicine Translation Advisory Board is a free-of-charge mentoring program to assess and advise promising nanomedicine projects and accelerate ...read more


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September 21st, 2017

Call for Papers – 6. Nationales Biobanken-Symposium 2017

Co-organised by the German Biobank Node and TMF (Technologie- und Methodenplattform für die vernetzte medizinische Forschung), Nationales Biobanken-Symposium i ...read more


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September 21st, 2017

Final programme for EMBL Conference on Lifelong Learning in the Biomedical Sciences 2017 available

The final programme for the EMBL Conference on Lifelong Learning in the Biomedical Sciences 2017 is now available here. Registration and abstract submission are o ...read more


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September 20th, 2017

Ready for Microscopy – Junior Researchers Day hosted by BBMRI.at

20 primary school children and the Austrian Childrens Newspaper visiting BBMRI.at  (Volkschulkinder und die Kleine Kinderzeitung zu Gast bei BBMRI.at) What happ ...read more


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September 8th, 2017

Final programme for Global Biobank Week 2017 online

The final programme for Global Biobank Week 2017 can be downloaded here. Find out more about the keynote speakers and all the other exciting events taking place ...read more


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September 5th, 2017

THE ROUTE at Global Biobank Week 2017 in Stockholm: From DNA sample to personalised feedback on genomics

The Route simulates the real workflow of a biobank. It is an interactive sequence of steps allowing GBW attendees to go through the seven different stages that ar ...read more


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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


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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


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July 27th, 2017

Meet Jasjote Grewal, our new ELSI Helpdesk Coordinator

Jasjote Grewal is a lawyer by training, having qualified as a Solicitor in England and Wales in 2010 with a niche health and social care law firm in London. S ...read more


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July 27th, 2017

Meet Francesco Florindi, our new Engagement Officer

The BBMRI-ERIC family is delighted to welcome Francesco Florindi as our new Engagement Officer. Francesco obtained a cum laude Master’s degree in International ...read more


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July 27th, 2017

ADOPT BBMRI-ERIC omics questionnaires

The BBMRI-ERIC community is seeking to increase its knowledge about omics technology service providers in Europe. To this end, four different questionnaires have ...read more


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July 27th, 2017

Biobanking concerns me: a great joint effort at public engagement during EBW 2017

  This year, the Italian node, BBMRI.it, will play a very active role in the European Biotech Week 2017 (EBW 2017), coordinating a great joint effort at publ ...read more


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July 24th, 2017

Greg Simon, President of the Biden Cancer Initiative, to open Global Biobank Week as keynote speaker

As President of the Biden Cancer Initiative, Greg is working to develop and drive implementation of solutions to accelerate progress in cancer prevention, detecti ...read more


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July 21st, 2017

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


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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


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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


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July 6th, 2017

ELIXIR releases its 2016 Annual Report

ELIXIR has published its 2016 Annual Report highlighting the most important steps forward in 2016 and showing how much ELIXIR’s services have advanced. It also ...read more


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July 6th, 2017

Prof. Jan-Eric Litton, Senior Adviser at BBMRI-ERIC, to Open Global Biobank Week 2017 as Keynote Speaker

Jan-Eric Litton received his Ph.D. from Karolinska Institutet in 1983. In 2002, he was appointed Professor of Biomedical Computing Technology at Karolinska Instit ...read more


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July 5th, 2017

BBMRI-ERIC Assembly of Members Appoints Erik Steinfelder as New Director General

The BBMRI-ERIC Assembly of Members recently appointed Erik Steinfelder as the new Director General of BBMRI-ERIC. He will begin this position on 1st August 2017, ...read more


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July 4th, 2017

CORBEL Staff Exchange: Call for Participants

The purpose of CORBEL Staff Exchanges is for operational staff from the Research Infrastructures (RIs) participating in CORBEL to develop operational expertise ...read more


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June 30th, 2017

Biobanking of Human Biospecimens – Principles and Practice: New Publication Available

Edited by Markus Pasterk, Administrative Director at BBMRI-ERIC, Austrian National Node Director Kurt Zatloukal, Pierre Hainaut and Jim Vaught, this volume is the ...read more


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June 29th, 2017

Record Number of Travel Fellowship Awards for Global Biobank Week

There were a record number of applicants for travel fellowships to attend the Global Biobank Week (GBW) conference to be held in Stockholm from the 13-15 Septembe ...read more


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June 29th, 2017

BBMRI.at contributes to new paper on sports medicine

Blood tests can show that endurance sports have a beneficial impact on physical and mental performance. Authored by Helmuth Haslacher et al., this paper describes ...read more


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June 29th, 2017

European Marine Biological Resource Centre launches new biobanking project

The European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC) launched the European Marine Biological Resource Centre Biobank (EBB) project at the beginning of May. Aimi ...read more


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June 22nd, 2017

Hot off the press: Biobanks Europe Magazine No. 7

We are delighted to announce that the Biobanks Europe Magazine No. 7 is out. If you have always wondered what the ADOPT BBMRI-ERIC project is all about, if you ...read more


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June 21st, 2017

Four simple recommendations to encourage best practices in research software

Co-authored by Petr Holub, IT/Data Protection Manager at BBMRI-ERIC, this new article highlights how already existing best practices in software development can b ...read more


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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


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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


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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


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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


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May 23rd, 2017

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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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April 19th, 2017

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


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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


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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


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April 5th, 2017

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


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April 4th, 2017

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


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March 30th, 2017

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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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March 8th, 2017

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


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March 6th, 2017

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


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March 2nd, 2017

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


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February 22nd, 2017

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


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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


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February 20th, 2017

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


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February 17th, 2017

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


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February 16th, 2017

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


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February 14th, 2017

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


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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


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February 8th, 2017

Code of conduct for using personal data in health research

Group mulls guidance on use of personal data
Researchers and lawyers are working on a code of conduct for using personal data in health research, aimed at ...read more


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February 2nd, 2017

ECRIN press release

Towards better medicines for children: PedCRIN project builds research infrastructure ...read more


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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


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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


  • News
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


  • News
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


  • ELSI
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January 19th, 2017

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


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December 21st, 2016

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


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December 20th, 2016

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


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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


  • ELSI
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December 19th, 2016

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


  • ELSI
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December 19th, 2016

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


  • News
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


  • News
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


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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


  • News
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


  • News
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


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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


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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


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October 27th, 2016

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


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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


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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


  • ELSI
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October 27th, 2016

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


  • News
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


  • ELSI
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October 17th, 2016

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


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October 12th, 2016

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


  • News
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


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October 5th, 2016

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


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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


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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


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September 29th, 2016

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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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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


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July 8th, 2016

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


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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


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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


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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


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May 25th, 2016

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


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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


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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


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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


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May 24th, 2016

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


  • News
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


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May 13th, 2016

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


  • ELSI
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May 10th, 2016

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


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May 3rd, 2016

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


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April 28th, 2016

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


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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


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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


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April 15th, 2016

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


  • ELSI
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April 14th, 2016

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


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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


  • ELSI
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April 6th, 2016

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


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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


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April 4th, 2016

EUROPE BIOBANK WEEK – REGISTRATION AND ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Registration and Abstract Submission are open now: http://europebiobankweek.eu/submission             ...read more


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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


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March 18th, 2016

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


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March 14th, 2016

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


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March 7th, 2016

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


  • News
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


  • ELSI
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March 4th, 2016

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


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February 26th, 2016

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


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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


  • News
January 27th, 2016

“GENETICS CLINIC OF THE FUTURE” SURVEY

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  • News
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


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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


  • News
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


  • News
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


  • ELSI
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December 17th, 2015

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


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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


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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


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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


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December 11th, 2015

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


  • News
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


  • News
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


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November 2nd, 2015

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


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September 9th, 2015

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


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August 3rd, 2015

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


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July 10th, 2015

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


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May 11th, 2015

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


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April 8th, 2015

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


  • News
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


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