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Webinar
27 Oct 2020
Webinar: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in human microbiome biobanking
Human microbiome research has the potential to increase our understanding of how health and disease are affected by the complex relationship between human, our dw ...read more
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Webinar
29 Oct 2020
Workshop: Ethically and socially responsible governance of research biobanks in the Baltic states
The aim of this workshop on 29 October 2020 is to exchange experience and discuss current ethical and social problems of research biobank governance in the Baltic ...read more
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Webinar
03 Nov 2020
EUCANCan Webinar: International Data Sharing of Cancer Genomic Data
Join the free webinar hosted by the free EUCANcan Consortium (an EU H2020-funded project on cancer data sharing) webinar titled International Data Sharing of Canc ...read more
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25 Nov 2020
Workshop: Looking back, going forward
Henrietta Lacks and the first immortalized human cell line, HeLa, have been influential in shaping both science and technology, from the development of the polio ...read more
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Webinar
03 Dec 2020
Knowledge Transfer Service: Codex4SMEs Webinar on Finding Samples and Data with the BBMRI-ERIC Directory & Negotiator
Browse biobank collections across Europe and get the samples and clinical data you need During this webinar, BBMRI-ERIC’s IT & Data Protection Manager P ...read more
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Paris
25 Feb 2021
26 Feb
2nd ICPerMed Conference ‘Personalised Medicine – From Vision to Practice’
New dates! The registration for the second conference of the International Consortium for Personalised Medicine (ICPerMed) “Personalised Medicine – From Visio ...read more
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Maastricht
08 Dec 2021
11 Dec
AI 4 Imaging: Radiomics, Deep Learning and Synthetic Data – A Hands-on Course
This course on Artificial Intelligence for Imaging is a unique opportunity to join a community of leading-edge practitioners in the field of Quantitative Medical ...read more
October 12th, 2020
Animation released on ELSI Services for Life Science Research Infrastructures
An animation commissioned by BBMRI-ERIC within the H2020 project CORBEL shows how Life Science Research Infrastructures can help researchers with ethical, legal a ...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 6th, 2020
Biobank Sweden’s legal helpdesk
The Swedish Research Council-funded research infrastructure Biobank Sweden supports healthcare providers and universities with medical faculties working towards n ...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
September 1st, 2020
Jens Habermann appointed Director General of BBMRI-ERIC
1st September 2020 The Assembly of Members of the Biobanking and BioMolecular resources Research Infrastructure – European Research Infrastructure Consortium (B ...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
Meet our Team – Barbora Halmová
This week, we’re getting to know Barbora Halmová, our Finance Officer. Hi, Barbora! What does a typical day look like for you? What kinds of issues do you ...read more
August 13th, 2020
BBMRI.QM Training & Education Programme
This autumn BBMRI.QM will provide an in-depth training on the pre-analytical ISO standards 20184 | 20166 | 20186 relevant for biomedical research and biobanking, ...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
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
COVID-19: European Medical Research Infrastructures are part of the global response
Together with EATRIS and ECRIN we just published our top 5 recommendations to accelerate #COVID19 research. Read the paper on EURACTIV. ...read more
Europe Biobank Week 2020 will be an online event!
Organisers BBMRI-ERIC and ESBB have decided that the Europe Biobank Week 2020, originally scheduled to take place from October 12-15, 2020 in Sofia, Bulgaria will ...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
BBMRI_QM Web conferences: no blueprint for such a pandemic, but an amazing collaboration
There is no blueprint for a global pandemic of this magnitude. However, researchers must follow standards and have access to high quality samples. The samples cur ...read more
CY-Biobank soon unveils new website and submits a joint proposal for carrying out local research on COVID-19
Despite the extension of the restrictive measures regarding mobility on the island, amid the spread of COVID-19, throughout April, the team of the new Research ...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
