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#EBW24 previews: Workshop details released

The workshop details have been released and can be found on a dedicated page. All delegates are able to book onto Congress workshops as part of the ticket price. They take place on the afternoon of Tuesday 14 May. Due to limited seats, these are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. When you book your ticket, you will then receive a separate […]

#EBW24 previews: Chairs for panel session ‘The road towards ISO 20387 accreditation’

We are delighted to confirm the chair for the panel session ‘The road towards ISO 20387 accreditation’: Prof. Agnieszka Matera-Witkiewicz, from Wroclaw Medical University and Dr. José Antonio López-Guerrero from the Instituto Valenciano de Oncología (IVO). The session takes place on Wednesday 15 May 2024 as part of the EBW24 programme. Prof. Agnieszka Matera-Witkiewicz Agnieszka Matera-Witkiewicz, Wroclaw Medical University Professor, Head of WMU […]

#EBW24 Editorial: Unlocking the Potential of Big Data and AI in Medicine

AI is playing a growing role in enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of diagnosing and treating medical conditions. It focuses on identifying relevant patterns in biomedicine to advance personalised preventive and therapeutic interventions.  Scientists from the ELSI Department (Kaya Akyüz, Mónica Cano Abadía, Melanie Goisauf, Michaela Th. Mayrhofer) at BBMRI-ERIC share why this session is not to be missed. AI […]

#EBW24 previews: Chairs for panel session ‘Tools to achieve quality – (new) standards for biobanks’

We are delighted to confirm the chairs for the panel session ‘Quality management and pre-analytics: Tools to achieve quality – (new) standards for biobanks’: Dr. Christine Joye, from the Swiss Biobanking Platform and Mieke De Wilde, BBMRI.be Quality Coordinator. The session takes place on Friday 17 May 2024 as part of the EBW24 programme. Dr. Christine Joye Christine Joye is the Executive Director […]

#EBW24 previews: Chair for panel session ‘Be aware of biobanking’ – outreach and communication in and for biobanks

We are very pleased to confirm the chair for the panel session ‘Stakeholders in the spotlight: “Be aware of biobanking” – outreach and communication in and for biobanks’: Dr. Ronny Baber from the University Hospital Leipzig. The session takes place on Thursday 16 May 2024 as part of the EBW24 programme. Dr. Ronny Baber Dr. Ronny Baber works in the Institute of […]

#EBW24 previews: State-of-the-art speakers for ‘Modelling and regenerative Medicine – Artificial Cellular Models’

We are delighted to confirm the State-of-the-art speakers for the panel session: ‘Modelling and regenerative Medicine – Artificial Cellular Models’. Assoc. Prof. Jan Bouchal from the Department of Clinical and Molecular Pathology in Olomouc, Czechia and Prof. Karine Sargsyan from the Cedars-Sinai MedicalCenter in Beverly Hills, California, US will be leading this session and we profile their biographies here. The session […]

#EBW24 previews: Chair for panel session ‘Stakeholders in the spotlight: Information security and data privacy’

We are delighted to confirm the chairs for the panel session ‘Stakeholders in the spotlight: Information security and data privacy’: Dr. Michal Malewicz, National Node Director of BBMRI.pl and Lisa Oster from Bruker BioSpin. The session takes place on Wednesday 15 May 2024 as part of the EBW24 programme. Michal Malewicz, PhD Michal is a molecular biologist specialising in genome stability and DNA […]

#EBW24 previews: Chair for panel session ‘Modelling and regenerative medicine – artificial cellular models’

We are very pleased to confirm the chair for the panel session ‘Quality: New sample types and methods: Modelling and regenerative medicine – artificial cellular models’: Dr. Anna Michalska-Falkowska from the Medical University in Bialystok, Poland. The session takes place on Thursday 16 May 2024 as part of the EBW24 programme. Dr. Anna Michalska-Falkowska Anna Michalska-Falkowska, PharmD is a specialist in clinical pharmacy and holds […]

#EBW24 previews: Chair for panel session ‘One health: Bioinformatics and -omics and big data’

We are delighted to confirm the chair for the panel session ‘One health: Bioinformatics and -omics and big data’: Professor Andres Metspalu from the University of Tartu. The session takes place on Thursday 16 May 2024 as part of the EBW24 programme. Professor Andres Metspalu Prof. Andres Metspalu, (MD 1976, PhD 1979) Head of the human disease genomics lab, Estonian Genome Centre, Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu. His main scientific […]

#EBW24 Editorial: MICROBE – MICRObiome Biobanking (RI) Enabler

This article comes from the MICROBE team. You can read about the project here – it kicked off in March 2023 at BBMRI.at. Microbiomes comprise communities of microorganisms (i.e., bacteria, archaea, protists, fungi and microalgae) and their “theatre of activity” (i.e., structural elements, metabolites, signal molecules, mobile genetic elements (such as viruses), as well as surrounding environmental conditions)1. They are […]