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#EBW24 Editorial: Advancing Together – Quality Management at BBMRI.at

This article comes from Helmuth Haslacher and Cornelia Stumptner from BBMRI.at. What do you do? From the very beginning, the Austrian National Node BBMRI.at considered quality as a crucial issue. BBMRI.at’s quality management work package is maintained by a team of quality management coordinators (QMCs) nominated by each partner biobank and coordinated by Helmuth Haslacher from the MedUni Vienna Biobank. The […]

#EBW24 previews: State-of-the-art speaker for ‘Rare Diseases’

We are very pleased to confirm the state-of-the-art speaker for the panel session: ‘Rare Diseases’. Prof. Dr. Uğur Özbek from Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center-IBG will be leading this session and we profile his biography and abstract here. The session takes place on Thursday 16 May 2024 as part of the EBW24 programme. Prof. Dr. Uğur Özbek Uğur Özbek, MD, PhD, graduated […]

#EBW24 previews: Chair for panel session ‘Microbiome – the known unknown’

We are delighted to confirm the chair for the panel session ‘Microbiome – the known unknown’: Dr. Loes D.F. Linsen from the Biobank University Hospitals Leuven. The session takes place on Thursday 16 May 2024 as part of the EBW24 programme. Dr. Loes D.F. Linsen Doctor in Biomedical Sciences. Enthousiastic person with strong scientific background and eye for detail. Well organised, open-minded and […]

#EBW24 previews: State-of-the-art speaker for ‘The road towards ISO 20387 accreditation’

We are very pleased to confirm the state-of-the-art speaker for the panel session: ‘The road towards ISO 20387 accreditation’. Dr. Lila Kallio from Auria Biobank will be leading this session and we profile her biography here. The session takes place on Wednesday 15 May 2024 as part of the EBW24 programme. Dr. Lila Kallio Lila Kallio, PhD, is the Director of Auria […]

#EBW24 Editorial: Citizen & Patient Involvement: Emerging best practices?

Join us at #EBW24. Discuss and explore with us the feasibility of and possible framework of guidance for citizen & patient involvement in biobank committees.  Dr. Ciara Staunton from ESBB and Dr. Eric Vermeulen, chair of the BBMRI.ERIC Stakeholder Forum Patient and Citizens Pillar, share why panel session ‘Citizen & Patient Involvement: Emerging best practices?’ is not to be missed. […]

#EBW24 previews: State-of-the-art speakers for ‘Tools to achieve quality – (new) standards for biobanks’

We are delighted to confirm the State-of-the-art speakers for the panel session: ‘Tools to achieve quality – (new) standards for biobanks’. Dr. Khalil Roy from Swiss Biobanking Platform, Marc Vandelaer from Wega Informatik and Clare Allocca from NIST will be leading this session and we profile their biographies here. The session takes place on Friday 17 May 2024 as part of the EBW24 programme. […]

#EBW24 previews: Chairs for panel session ‘Citizen & Patient Involvement: Emerging best practices?’

We are pleased to confirm the chairs for the panel session ‘Citizen & Patient Involvement: Emerging best practices?’: Dr. Ciara Staunton from the Institute for Biomedicine, Eurac Research and Dr. Eric Vermeulen, chair of the BBMRI.ERIC Stakeholder Forum Patient and Citizens Pillar. The session takes place on Thursday 16 May 2024 as part of the EBW24 programme. Dr. Ciara Staunton Dr. Ciara Staunton […]

#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 […]