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April 23rd, 2025
BBMRI-ERIC’s Strategy for European life sciences – A submission to the EC’s Call for Evidence
Towards a Strategy for European Life Sciences This article is 1,293 words and a five-minute read. The European Commission is preparing a new Strategy for European ...read more
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 15th, 2025
canSERV Open Call Relaunches: EUR 1,500,000 in EU funding to accelerate Cancer Research and Innovation
Graz, 15 April 2024: The canSERV project has relaunched its Open Call for Service Provision, making up to EUR 1,5 million in EU funding available to support oncol ...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
BBMRI-ERIC implements its Work Programme 2025-2027: From Strategy to Operation
During February and March, BBMRI-ERIC convened a series of unique, community driven, events to launch its Work Programme for 2025-2027. This article explores what ...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 14th, 2025
New Podcast Episode – ELSI Dialogues: Access and benefit-sharing of Genetic Resources – the Nagoya Protocol applied to biobanks
This article is 300 words – a two-minute read. Sharing is caring. This also holds true for biological samples and data as resources for research. Episode 27 ...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
March 12th, 2025
To Accreditation and beyond: The Added Value of the BBMRI-ERIC Quality Label
This article is 350 words and a two-minute read. The Added Value of the BBMRI-ERIC Quality Label The quest for excellence in biobanking continues: The Hannover Un ...read more
February 25th, 2025
EvolveBBMRI: One year of implementation on datafication, greening biobanks, and One Health integration
This article is 1,429 words, an approximate 7-minute read Since its creation, the Biobanking and BioMolecular resources Research Infrastructure – European ...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
December 20th, 2024
New Podcast Episode – ELSI Dialogues: Artificial Intelligence in South-Eastern Asia – The Indonesian National Artificial Intelligence Strategy on Ethics and Policy
This article is 296 words – a two-minute read. “AI systems need to be human centric, they should serve humanity and the common good” Episode 26 takes yo ...read more
December 1st, 2024
Call for Tender: BBMRI-ERIC Common Service IT 2025-2027
CALL FOR TENDER BBMRI-ERIC COMMON SERVICE IT 2025-2027 Publication date: 1st December 2024 Main Objective of this Call The main objective of this call for ...read more
November 26th, 2024
Hannover Unified Biobank (HUB) accredited according to the international standard for biobanking (ISO 20387)
This article has 850 words and is a 4-minute read. The Hannover Unified Biobank (HUB) has achieved accreditation under the DIN EN ISO 20387:2020 standard, titled ...read more
November 14th, 2024
BBMRI-ERIC and canSERV in the press: 400 ways to defeat cancer faster
The following article is 704 words and a five-minute read. Thank you to Didi Hubmann, Editorial Director of Themenmagazine, Kleine Zeitung, for granting permissio ...read more
November 7th, 2024
A year filled with collaborative efforts and joint successes: BBMRI-ERIC’s 2023 Annual Report
This article has 900 words and is a 4-minute read. BBMRI-ERIC is proud to share its 2023 Annual Report that documents continued focus on three main themes: susta ...read more
November 6th, 2024
New podcast episode – ELSI Dialogues: Communicating with patient citizens on implementing the European Health Data Space (EHDS)
This article is 828 words – a six-minute read. “Without the patient citizen’s data, there is no future for research” This episode takes you to a works ...read more
