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Webinar
19 Jan 2021
Webinar: Psychosocial characteristics of potential participants in biobanking – a study on the Polish population, by Jakub Pawlikowski (BBMRI.pl)
Advances of biomedical research based on biobanks collecting human biological material are highly dependent on the successful recruitment and participation of hum ...read more
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21 Jan 2021
25 Jan
Save the date! International IT Symposium on Biobank Management & Federated Search on 21, 22 and 25 January 2021
Coorganised by BBMRI-ERIC and ESBB. Our biobank community strives for continuous improvements of our services and contributions to Life Sciences. In alignment wit ...read more
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25 Feb 2021
26 Feb
2nd ICPerMed Conference ‘Personalised Medicine – From Vision to Practice’
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions, ICPerMed decided to go virtual and move the event to an online platform. Attendees will have access to all i ...read more
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Online
08 Mar 2021
10 Mar
2nd IBCQ International Biobanking Conference 2021
Qatar Biobank in partnership with the European and Middle Eastern Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking (ESBB), the International Society for Biological and ...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
International IT Symposium on Biobank Management & Federated Search
On 21, 22 and 25 January Our biobank community strives for continuous improvements of our services and contributions to Life Sciences. In alignment with the EU Da ...read more
January 12th, 2021
Our Quality Management training programme is restarting on 19 January
Web conference series on pre-analytical ISO standards – 4 more sessions on VWB in January 21! Since October 2020, the BBMRI.QM team provides in cooperation ...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 15th, 2020
A fruitful year for EDIReX, the EurOPDX Research Infrastructure
The new EurOPDX Research Infrastructure (RI) aims at improving cancer drug development success rates through the enablement of high-quality preclinical research u ...read more
December 15th, 2020
Soon published – “GDPR and Biobanking: Individual Rights, Public Interest and Research Regulation across Europe”
Springer Book “GDPR and Biobanking: Individual Rights, Public Interest and Research Regulation across Europe” – soon available open access! R ...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
December 9th, 2020
The Cyprus Center of Excellence in Biobanking and Biomedical Research launches joint research study on Covid-19 antibodies
As we approach the end of 2020, we can’t wait to share with you some exciting new developments regarding our Center of Excellence. First off, September 30th mar ...read more
December 2nd, 2020
Join BBMRI-ERIC as Legal Officer
BBMRI-ERIC is looking for a Legal Officer based in Austria to support our ELSI team on ethical, legal and societal issues in biobanking and biomolecular resources ...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
Swiss Biobanking Platform developed its MTA 2.0 and SOP
To respond to the researchers’ need to share simultaneously both biological material and associated data (i.e. preanalytical and personal data), SBP has develo ...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
November 10th, 2020
BBMRI.mt: Three Medical Science degree students involved in biobanking-led research
BBMRI.mt is active in the new Bachelor of Science Honours in Medical Sciences. This is an optional ‘intercalated’ year offered to the existing degree programm ...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 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
