Our News
April 5th, 2023
Two new ELSI genomic research relevant publications released
The BBMRI-ERIC ELSI team are delighted to share two new genomic research relevant publications: Published in BioSocieties, ‘Post-identifiability in changing ...read more
March 30th, 2023
BBMRI-ERIC and ELIXIR announce strategic collaboration
BBMRI-ERIC, the European research infrastructure for biobanking and biomolecular resources, and ELIXIR, the European life science data infrastructure, have announ ...read more
March 16th, 2023
The canSERV project seeks Personalised Oncology and Molecular Tumour Board experts for European networks
The EU cluster project canSERV is inviting anyone involved in a Molecular Tumour Board (MTB) – e.g., physicians, scientists, patient representatives, ethicists ...read more
The canSERV Consortium announces its first Challenge-Call on “Advancing Personalised Oncology”.
Deadline for submission is 25th of April 2023, 12:00 CEST. Cancer Researchers in, and outside, the EU are invited to apply for free access to cutting-edge transna ...read more
February 22nd, 2023
Cyprus and Qatar join BBMRI-ERIC as full and observer members
This article is 931 words and a three-minute read. Cyprus and the State of Qatar have been officially confirmed as members of the Biobanking and BioMolecular reso ...read more
February 15th, 2023
New podcast episode: ELSI Dialogues – Why ELSI Matters!
“I think an ELSI expert is often seen as a patch for projects from the natural sciences. You can ask this ELSI expert anything that has to be solved in a certai ...read more
January 23rd, 2023
Estonian Biobank and Nightingale Health complete initial phase of collaboration by profiling 250 metabolites from 200,000 blood samples
In 2021, the Estonian Biobank (EstBB) entered into a collaboration with the Finnish health tech company Nightingale Health Oy (Nightingale). The initial phase of ...read more
January 18th, 2023
The team at Auria Biobank, Finland, achieves ISO 20387:2020 accreditation
This article is 739 words – a four-minute read. The team at Auria Biobank, part of Turku University Hospital’s Laboratory Division, have achieved ISO 2038 ...read more... ...read more
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January 17th, 2023
BBMRI.bg hosts Biomedical research infrastructures – drivers of the genome and personalised medicine in Bulgaria
A two-day national forum “Biomedical research infrastructures – drivers of the genome and personalised medicine in Bulgaria” was held on 9th and 10th ...read more
January 13th, 2023
New BBMRI-ERIC podcast episode: Exploring the Lightweight Distributed Provenance Model for Complex Real–world Environments – biobanking, medical research data and reproducibility
“We realised we needed to start something new to address the medical research reproducibility crisis.” The latest episode of the BBMRI-ERIC podcast is now ava ...read more
December 19th, 2022
Quality Talk: José Antonio López-Guerrero of IVO Biobank on achieving ISO 20387
This article is 1,787 words, an eight-minute read. In August 2022, the team at IVO Biobank in Spain became the first in the BBMRI-ERIC network to achieve ISO 203 ...read more
December 15th, 2022
CELSPAC opening highlights biobanking’s importance for European climate policy
The recent opening of the CELSPAC Biobank at RECETOX, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, offered a 360 degree understanding of how the evolving Horizon ...read more