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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 certain way, it has to be a yes or no answer, then it’s done and you never have to talk about it again.” This…
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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 this partnership has been now successfully completed; this involved profiling up to 250 metabolites from plasma samples of 200,000 EstBB participants. The addition of comprehensive biomarker data to the EstBB collection…
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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 20387:2020 accreditation. This makes Auria the fourth BBMRI-ERIC member biobank to demonstrate quality to this international standard. Andrea Wutte, Head of Quality Management at BBMRI, said of the accreditation: “It is a pleasure to see the…
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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 of December in Sofia. Prof. Radka Kaneva, coordinator of the BBMRI National Node, and Head of Molecular Medicine Center at Medical University of Sofia, moderated the meeting. It was organised by the National University Complex of Biomedical and…
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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 available. It explores a paper that was recently published in Nature which illustrates a lightweight distributed provenance model designed for complex, real-world, environments. The paper has been researched and written by a…
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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 20387:2018. This is the standard for biobanks to demonstrate “competence, impartiality and consistent operation including quality control requirements to ensure biological material and data collections of appropriate quality”. Andrea Wutte (AW), Head…
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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 2020 programme, with a focus on biobanking, is being realised on the ground. Climate emergency policy In the face of the growing climate emergency, the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 strategy is increasingly focusing…
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Giuseppe Ippolito – General Director for Research and Innovation in Healthcare – Ministry of Health – closes BBMRI-ERIC Paediatrics event
Highly regarded epidemiologist and General Director for Research and Innovation in Healthcare at the Italian Ministry of Health, Giuseppe Ippolito, spoke in depth on the value of cooperation, challenges of data sharing and importance of RIs at the close of BBMRI-ERIC and ESBB’s paediatrics workshop. The event took place in Rome from 13-14 October and…
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ESBB and BBMRI-ERIC formalise closer collaboration
Prof. Jens Habermann, Director General of the Biobanking and BioMolecular Research Infrastructure (BBMRI-ERIC),and Dr. Dominik Lermen, Outgoing President of The European, Middle Eastern & African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking (ESBB), signed a historic memorandum of understanding between their organisations at the recent Europe Biobank Week (EBW) Roadshow Meeting & Exhibit in Regensburg, Germany. Strengthening collaboration ESBB,…
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Biobank Väst In Sweden Achieves Quality Label
Biobank Väst at Sahlgrenska University Hospital (Gothenburg, Sweden) has become the first Nordic biobank within BBMRI-ERIC’s network to receive a Quality Label according to ISO 20387:2018. Linda Paulson, Head of Unit at Biobank Väst said: “The Quality Label is proof that we meet the requirements of the standard and also the laws and regulations that govern biobanking.” Biobank…
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Strengthening collaboration between BBMRI-ERIC and the Nordic biobanks – conference report
Professor Jens Habermann, Director General, Dr. Michaela Th. Mayrhofer, Head of ELSI, and Dr. Manuela Pausen, Scientific Stakeholder Specialist, recently attended the first Nordic Biobank Conference in Gothenburg, Sweden. The conference presented a unique opportunity to meet representatives in the field of human biobanking as well as other scientific experts from healthcare, academic, and industry sectors. Current trends and…
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BBMRI.pl: Publication in The Lancet Digital Health for the Molecular Pathology Centre Cellgen
The worldwide first prospective clinical study on the prediction of COVID-19 disease course has been completed and was published in the leading journal THE LANCET Digital Health on 31 August 2022. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(22)00150-9 The study is the result of cooperation between Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH) and international research centres (including Molecular Pathology Center Cellgen, Wroclaw). Łukasz…