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05 Oct 2021
07 Oct
RI-VIS Australia-Europe Symposium
Save the date for the RI-VIS Australia – Europe Symposium. It will be held Tuesday, October 5th to Thursday, October 7th, 2021, as a virtual event. Stay tun ...read more
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Virtual
08 Nov 2021
10 Nov
Europe Biobank Week on 8-10 November 2021 (virtual)
Europe Biobank Week 2021 will take place online again on 8-10 November 2021: “Biobanking for our future – opportunities unlocked!” Registration ...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
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Gothenburg
08 Mar 2022
10 Mar
The 2022 Nordic Biobank Conference
The Nordic Biobank Conference in Gothenburg is jointly organized by Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway. As previously reported, the conference has been ...read more
July 26th, 2021
Tutorials on Using the Negotiator for Biobankers
Biobankers can now take advantage of two tutorial videos on the BBMRI-ERIC Negotiator. The first is on how to complete the registration process in order to connec ...read more
July 22nd, 2021
EBW Abstract Deadline Extended to August 1st
The deadline for abstract submission to Europe Biobank Week 2021 (#EBW21) has been extended to 1 August 2021! The theme of this year’s virtual congress is & ...read more
July 13th, 2021
Call for Abstracts for Nordic Permed Law Symposium and European Journal of Health Law (EJHL) special issue on Genome Editing, Health Innovation and Responsible Regulation
Members of the BBMRI community are invited to submit abstracts for a symposium on genome editing on 3-4 November 2021 and a subsequent special issue on Genome Edi ...read more
July 5th, 2021
Publication on design and mechanisms of the BBMRI-ERIC Negotiator
A new publication is out on the BBMRI-ERIC Negotiator, written by members of our Common Service IT team. One of the main challenges for biobank users is to find r ...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 24th, 2021
BBMRI-ERIC and ESBB hold biobanking workshop for Latin American audience
Within the RI-VIS Latin American-Europe Symposium on Research Infrastructures, BBMRI and ESBB held a joint workshop titled “Prerequisites for biobanking collabo ...read more
June 23rd, 2021
Hungary joins BBMRI-ERIC as Full Member
Hungary, as Full Member state, has joined the Biobanking and BioMolecular resources Research Infrastructure – European Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI ...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
Porto declaration on cancer research: EU-AMRI calls for further deployment of high quality infrastructures
On 3 May 2021, following the Cancer Research Summit 2021, hosted by the Portuguese Presidency of the European Council, the Porto Declaration on Cancer Research ...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
May 4th, 2021
Welcome Ilaria Colussi, our new Legal Officer!
In April 2021, we welcomed Ilaria Colussi to the BBMRI-ERIC Headquarters team. She is a Legal Officer within the ELSI Services & Research unit, mainly concent ...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-ERIC/Biobank Norway digital workshop: Hospital-based biobanks for biomedical research
Biological samples collected from patients can potentially be used to advance medical research. European countries are progressively establishing procedures to sy ...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 25th, 2021
Task Force Research Ethics Committees
Mission Statement The mission of the Task Force Research Ethics Committees (TF REC) is to map the procedures of national and regional RECs in order to identify th ...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
IBG-BIOBANK, a BBMRI.tr partner, established a COVID-19 cohort
IBG-Biobank, the Biobank and Biomolecular Resources Platform of Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center (IBG), in partnership with Dokuz Eylul University Hospital (DE ...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 5th, 2021
BBMRI-ERIC urges collaboration with medtech industry to improve sample collection
2 February 2021 In a joint statement, BBMRI-ERIC’s Strategy & Partnerships Manager Francesco Florindi and Erik Steinfelder, Biobanking Market Developmen ...read more
February 4th, 2021
BBMRI-ERIC Responds to the European Health Data Space (EHDS) Initiative
4 February 2021 The European Commission published the roadmap for the European Health Data Space (EHDS) initiative in December 2020. The roadmap was open for feed ...read more
