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April 15th, 2025
The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) becomes the first biobank in Norway to achieve ISO 20387 accreditation
This article is 404 words and a 2-minute read. The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH) has achieved accreditation under the ISO 20387 standard, becoming t ...read more
April 9th, 2025
BBMRI-ERIC joins EOSC Federation build-up phase
BBMRI-ERIC joins EOSC Federation build-up phase This article is 548 words and a three-minute read. BBMRI-ERIC is one of 13 Candidate EOSC Nodes invited to partici ...read more
April 8th, 2025
Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures: A BBMRI-ERIC story for the WHO World Health Day 2025
BBMRI-ERIC and its biobanks facilitate research on women’s and children’s health It takes a village to raise a child but also a whole research communi ...read more
March 13th, 2025
ISIDORe Case Study: BBMRI-ERIC Latvia – biobanking enabling pandemic preparedness research
The ISIDORe project is a major European initiative focusing on studying infectious diseases and improving Europe’s ability to respond to future epidemics and pa ...read more
February 20th, 2025
BBMRI-ERIC biobanks as pillars of modern paediatric cancer research
Feb 15th was International Childhood Cancer Day 2025 On the International Childhood Cancer Day 2025, we invited you on a virtual journey across Europe to get to k ...read more
August 9th, 2024
Locator – a powerful tool to enhance visibility and findability of samples and data in Europe’s biobanks
This article is 912 words, an approximate five-minute read. A biomedical treasure hunt across Europe with the right tool(s) Over the last 50 years, medical instit ...read more
February 26th, 2024
The draft text of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) in trilogues sparks deep concerns in the European healthcare ecosystem
BBMRI-ERIC, as part of a coalition of 35 large health stakeholder organisations representing patients, health professionals, researchers and industrial actors in ...read more
January 16th, 2024
Call for abstracts: Shape the conversation at Europe Biobank Week 2024
The Europe Biobank Week Congress, jointly organised between BBMRI-ERIC and ESBB, is back for 2024 and the call for abstracts is open. The Congress will take p ...read more
December 4th, 2023
Stakeholder coalition calls for legislative refinement of the EHDS
4 December 2023, Brussels – BBMRI-ERIC, as part of a large multi-stakeholder group, representing the entire spectrum of the healthcare ecosystem and consisting ...read more
October 27th, 2023
New podcast episode: Biobanking Development – Amsterdam UMC’s International Freezer Challenge Win and Carbon Literacy
“I learned that health care has a share of 6 to 8% in our total energy consumption – equal to the aviation sector. Although as health care researchers, we ...read more
June 1st, 2023
Biobank Łukasiewicz – PORT awarded the BBMRI-ERIC Quality Label
“Receiving the Quality Label is a very important step for our Biobank in establishing its position, not only in Poland, but also in the wider European biobankin ...read more... ...read more
March 30th, 2023
BBMRI-ERIC and ELIXIR announce strategic collaboration
BBMRI-ERIC, the European research infrastructure for biobanking and biomolecular resources, and ELIXIR, the European life science data infrastructure, have announ ...read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
February 4th, 2020
Meet our Team – Carmen Cristea
This week, we’re getting to know Carmen Cristea, our Finance Manager and currently Interim Co-Director General. Hi, Carmen! What does a typical day look l ...read more
February 3rd, 2020
Meet our Team – Ayodeji Adeniran
Meet one of our newest employees, Ayodeji Adeniran. Coming to us from the University of Reading as a Research and Enterprise Contracts Officer, Ayodeji is now BB ...read more
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
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
January 26th, 2020
CETOCOEN EXCELLENCE Project Kicks Off in Brno
On January 15, 2020, the H2020 TEAMING “CETOCOEN Excellence” project was ceremonially launched in Brno, Czech Republic. BBMRI-ERIC is beneficiary of this proj ...read moreBBMRI-ERIC’s IT and Data Protection Manager Petr Holub is spearheading BBMRI’s involvement in the H2020 project. ...read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Webinar III: Using BBMRI-ERIC’s Directory
BBMRI-ERIC’s Directory gives access to over 600 biobanks and 100,000,000 samples across Europe. How can you use our tool to find samples quickly and effecti ...read more
BBMRI-ERIC Directory Webinar II
BBMRI-ERIC’s Directory gives access to 568 biobanks and 100,000,000 samples across Europe. Join BBMRI-ERIC’s Director General, Erik Steinfelder, on We ...read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
New Self-Assessment Survey
We are delighted to announce that a new Self-Assessment Survey for biobanks is available now. The purpose of the BBMRI-ERIC Self-Assessment Surveys is to encourag ...read more
September 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
BBMRI.at partner Medical University of Innsbruck hosts biobanking workshop on new sample quality standards
The Medical University of Innsbruck, a BBMRI.at partner, recently hosted a biobanking workshop to introduce the new sample quality standards defined within the C ...read more
July 21st, 2017
Medical University of Graz (BBMRI.at) co-organises meeting on open innovation: How Research Infrastructures Boost Innovation
The Medical University of Graz, one of the BBMRI.at partners, and EATRIS recently co-organised a meeting in Brussels as part of the H2020-funded CORBEL (Coordinat ...read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
May 24th, 2017
BBMRI-ERIC Directory reaches 100m samples
BBMRI-ERIC is delighted to announce that its Directory has now reached 100m samples, making it the largest biobanking catalogue on the globe. Having recently been ...read more
May 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
May 9th, 2017
Abstract submission deadline for Global Biobank Week extended
The deadline for the submission of abstracts for the 2017 Global Biobank Week in Stockholm has been extended to May 18. Click here for more information and to sub ...read more
May 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
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
April 27th, 2017
News from our National Node in Austria
BBMRI.at-internal QM cross audit at Biobank Graz A sign of mutual trust within the BBMRI.at consortium – March 2017 Read the full article here New pu ...read more
April 27th, 2017
German biobanks receive 14 million Euros of government funding to build a professional infrastructure
As of May 1, 2017, eleven German biobanks will be joining forces in the German Biobank Alliance in order to build a network of biobanks supporting research projec ...read more
April 27th, 2017
TURKISH GENOME PROJECT LAUNCHED
The newly founded Health Institutes of Turkey (TUSEB) have initiated a Turkish genome project that aims at sequencing 100,000 genomes from healthy individuals as ...read more
April 27th, 2017
Establishing a New Biobank Network in Istanbul, Turkey
The Investing in the Future: BIOBANK project, which was funded by the Istanbul Development Agency during the 2015-2016 period, has been successfully completed. Th ...read more
April 27th, 2017
New Tools to Facilitate Findability and Accessibility of Biobanking Resources
BBMRI-ERIC is proud to announce that two new tools aiming to improve the findability and accessibility of biobanking resources in Europe, and possibly even beyond ...read more
April 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
APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN!
Applications for the Executive Masters in Management of Research Infrastructures are open now and can be submitted using the online form available here. Click her ...read more
April 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
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
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
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
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
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
March 30th, 2017
News from our National Node in Austria
A new publication by BBMRI.at titled Automatic Classification System for Pathological Findings is now available for download from BBMRI.at’s news section. Read ...read more
March 29th, 2017
BBMRI-ERIC at the Integrating Research and Healthcare for Rare Diseases Workshop in Malta
Since there is a major interest for collaboration between rare diseases researchers in Europe and beyond, rare diseases have been defined as one of the core prior ...read more
March 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
March 20th, 2017
Preliminary Programme for Global Biobank Week Now Online!
Do you want to have a sneak peek at the GBW preliminary programme? Are you interested in submitting an abstract for GBW? Do you want to register for GBW and get ...read more
March 20th, 2017
Swiss Biobanking Platform – Newsletter N°2
The Swiss Biobanking Platform’s Newsletter N°2 features information on new hub coordinators, new partners, the Working Groups on Harmonisation, the Bioban ...read more
March 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
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
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
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
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
February 20th, 2017
!NEW! – MSC in Biobanking
The Master’s course “MSc in Biobanking” starts for the second time! More at bbmri.at ...read more
International Biobanking Experts at BBMRI.at Course in Graz
How to improve the quality of biobank samples, could be experienced in the BBMRI.at laboratory course “Pre-Analytical Sample Processing in Biobanking”. More a ...read more
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
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
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
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
February 8th, 2017
Code of conduct for using personal data in health research
Group mulls guidance on use of personal dataResearchers and lawyers are working on a code of conduct for using personal data in health research, aimed at ...read more
February 2nd, 2017
ECRIN press release
Towards better medicines for children: PedCRIN project builds research infrastructure ...read more
January 25th, 2017
Jan-Eric Litton in Nature: “We must urgently clarify data-sharing rules”
Scientists have worked hard to ensure that Europe’s new data laws do not harm science, but one last push is needed, says Jan-Eric Litton. In a little ...read more
January 25th, 2017
New BBMRI.at Consortium Partner
BBMRI.at welcomes the University of Vienna as new consortium partner which under the leadership of Prof.Ulrike Felt will continue with the current team its excell ...read more
January 24th, 2017
Join us at the first GLOBAL BIOBANK MEETING
BBMRI-ERIC, ESBB and ISBER are joining forces for the first Global Biobank Week which will take place from September 13th to 15th, 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. &nbs ...read more
January 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
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
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
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
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
News about GDPR Implementation and Guidance from the Art.29 DPWP
The Article 29 Working Party (“WP29”) has issued new guidance on three important aspects of the new General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), which com ...read more
Revised version of the CIOMS Ethical Guidelines for Human Research
The Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences (CIOMS) last week finalized the latest revision to its ethical guidelines for health research invo ...read more
December 19th, 2016
Registration of human tissue banks could stop millions of samples going to waste
A change in the way human tissue banks are registered should help prevent millions of human tissue samples, that could be used for medical research, from going to ...read more
December 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
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
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
November 22nd, 2016
The UK Biobanking Timebomb: Maintaining Public Trust in Medical Research
On the 25th October BBMRI.uk attended an event in parliament organised by The University of Nottingham. The UK Biobanking Timebomb: Maintaining Public Trust in Me ...read more
November 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
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
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
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
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
New WMA Declaration of Taipei on HDB published
On behalf of the CS ELSI Task Force on International Organisation Policy Assessment and Monitoring Task Force (TF IO Policy), we inform you that the draft WMA dec ...read more
October 17th, 2016
Patient Engagement in Biobanking
“Why patient engagement and data management are important for research” – Kurt Zatloukal, BBMRI.at National Node Director and Pathologist at the ...read more
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
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
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
CORBEL launches 1st Open Call for research projects
CORBEL – Coordinated Research Infrastructures Building Enduring Life-science services – is an EC Horizon2020 project uniting 11 Biological and Medical Science ...read more
October 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
CBMED IS THE FIRST EXPERT CENTRE OF BBMRI-ERIC
CBmed, an Austrian funded competence center, links excellent research infrastructure, scientific expertise, medical knowledge, national and international industry ...read more
May 25th, 2016
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
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
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
INTERVIEW WITH KARL-FRIEDRICH BECKER
Our Quality Manager, Andrea Wutte, presents her interview with the Head of the Laboratory for Experimental Pathology in Munich/Germany, Karl-Friedrich Becker! Kar ...read more
May 24th, 2016
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
April 6th, 2016
BBMRI, ESBB & ISBER TO COLLABORATE FOR A JOINT MEETING IN AUTUMN 2017
BBMRI-ERIC, ESBB and ISBER signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) which defines collaboration, mutual recognition, and shared approaches for the hosting of ...read more
April 4th, 2016
EUROPE BIOBANK WEEK – REGISTRATION AND ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Registration and Abstract Submission are open now: http://europebiobankweek.eu/submission ...read more
March 23rd, 2016
EGI FITSM TRAINING CALENDAR FOR 2016
EGI is pleased to announce the first dates of 2016 for FitSM training and certification. FitSM is a pragmatic, lightweight and achievable standard for IT servi ...read more
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
BBMRI-ERIC WELCOMES THE DETAILS ON THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION
“BBMRI-ERIC has played a vital role to improve the GDPR“, says BBMRI-ERIC’s Director General Prof. Jan-Eric Litton. BBMRI-ERIC has met with sev ...read more
December 17th, 2015
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
December 16th, 2015
100% OF MEMBER STATES REPLY ON SHARING RESULTS
The sharing-results policies, practices and opinions of biobanks have been surveyed by the EU Horizon 2020 funded Genetics Clinic of the Future (GCOF) project. T ...read more
December 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
BLOG ENTRY 11/05/2015
Update to the ongoing development of ISO Standardisation processes for „Biobanks and bioresources”, most relevant for the BBMRI-ERIC community. On ...read more
Interview with 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
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
The BBMRI-ERIC Quality Management service is co-funded within ADOPT BBMRI-ERIC, a project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 676550.
The BBMRI-ERIC Quality Management service is co-funded within SPIDIA4P, a project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 733112.
