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The Federated Search Task Force
The Federated Search Task Force is a key initiative within the BBMRI-ERIC infrastructure, supporting the development and implementation of the Federated Platform—a vendor-neutral, standards-based ecosystem designed to enable seamless interoperability across European biobanks.
This Task Force plays a central role in advancing federated search capabilities, allowing researchers to query distributed biobank data without centralising sensitive information. By leveraging a hierarchical model, the platform supports data discovery and analysis at multiple levels—biobank, national node, and BBMRI-ERIC central services.
The Task Force organises technical and informative sessions for national nodes and biobanks, following a “train-the-trainers” approach to ensure sustainable knowledge transfer and local capacity building. These efforts are crucial for enabling biobanks to connect to the platform, maintain local components, and align with BBMRI-ERIC’s data protection and interoperability standards.
Through its work, the Federated Search Task Force contributes to broader European initiatives such as the European Health Data Space and Mission Cancer, reinforcing BBMRI-ERIC’s commitment to making high-quality, findable, and ethically governed biomedical data accessible for research.
Co-chairs:
- Zdenka Dudová / BBMRI.cz / Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute
- Tomas Snäckerström / BBMRI.se / Uppsala Biobank
To sign up or get in touch with the co-chairs please use federated-platform@helpdesk.bbmri-eric.eu
Information about joining the Platform for biobanks’ representatives: Join the BBMRI-ERIC Federated Platform – BBMRI-ERIC
Access page to the Platform for researchers and other partners: BBMRI-ERIC Sample and Data Portal – BBMRI-ERIC
Former co-chairs:
- Phil Quinlan
- Tom Giles
- Radovan Tomasik
Secretary:
- Kurt Majcen / BBMRI-ERIC / BBMRI-ERIC Headquarters
List of members
- Kacper Bednarek / BBMRI.pl / Biobank Łódź
- Roberto Bilbao / BBMRI.es / Basque Biobank, BIOEF
- Radosveta Bozhilova / BBMRI.bg / Medical University of Sofia
- Natalia Cal Purrinos / BBMRI.es / Instituto de. Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra
- Annelies Debucquoy / BBMRI.be / Belgian Cancer Registry (Stichting Kankerregister)
- Zdenka Dudova / BBMRI.cz / Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute
- Cecilia Engels / BBMRI.de / German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) / German Biobank Network
- Delhaes Flavien / BBMRI.ch / Swiss Biobanking Platform
- Francesca Frexia / CRS4/BBMRI.it / Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia
- Jens Habermann / BBMRI-ERIC / BBMRI-ERIC Headquarters
- Innar Hallik / BBMRI.ee / University of Tartu
- Helmuth Haslacher / BBMRI.at / Medical University of Vienna
- Zohaib Hassan / BBMRI.de / German Biobank Network
- Petr Holub / BBMRI-ERIC / BBMRI-ERIC Headquarters
- Michael Hummel / BBMRI.de / German Biobank Network
- Normunds Kante / BBMRI.lv / Riga Technical University
- Sabrina Kral / BBMRI.at / Medical University of Graz
- Kurt Majcen / BBMRI-ERIC / BBMRI-ERIC Headquarters
- Apostolos Malatras / BBMRI.cy / University of Cyprus
- Blazej Marciniak / BBMRI.pl / Biobank Łódź
- Kristjan Metsalu / BBMRI.ee / University of Tartu
- Belén Mollá / BBMRI.es / Pulmonary Biobank Platform (PBP) and CIBERER Biobank (CBK)
- Alberto Montolío / BBMRI.es / University of Zaragoza
- Milan Ojsteršek / BBMR.si / University of Maribor
- Matteo Pallocca / BBMRI.it / CNR-IEOMI
- Gregory Papagregoriou / BBMRI.cy / University of Cyprus
- Veronika Perz / BBMRI.at / Medical University of Graz
- Vita Rovite / BBMRI.lv / Latvian Biomedical Research Centre
- Lidia Ryabova / BBMRI.mt / University of Malta
- Chiara Salzano / BBMRI.it / Istituti Fisioterapici Ospitalieri (IFO)
- Eric Santucci / BBMRI.mt / University of Malta
- Peter Sarkozy / BBMRI.hu / Semmelweis University
- Krista-Roberta Saviauk / BBMRI.ee / University of Tartu
- Stelios Sfakianakis / BBMRI.gr / Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology
- Volodymyr Shekhovtsov / BBMRI.at / University of Klagenfurt
- Tomas Snäckerström / BBMRI.se / Uppsala University
- Dominik Strapagiel / BBMRI.pl / Biobank Łódź
- Andrzej Strug / BBMRI.pl / Medical University of Gdaòsk
- Joanna Vella / BBMRI.mt / University of Malta
- Pauli Wihuri / BBMRI.fi / FINBB
- Michalis Yerou / BBMRI.cy / University of Cyprus
