#EBW25 Previews: 10B: Ensuring Excellence: Elevating Data Quality in Biobanking
Medical studies based on data of unknown or questionable quality are useless or even dangerous, as shown by recent examples of withdrawn studies. In this session, there will be a discussion on innovative quality dimensions for data sets linked to biobanks and proposed representations of both metadata and data quality documentation to help researchers effectively and efficiently identify suitable data sets for medical studies.
This session will be chaired by:
Dr. Sabine Bavamian
Dr. Sabine Bavamian is a biologist by training. She gained her scientific background from more than 10 years in clinical and academic research. She graduated with a PhD in biology in the field of diabetes from the University of Geneva in Switzerland before being appointed as a postdoctoral fellow at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT in Cambridge (USA). There, she was involved in both clinical and academic research settings on projects related to psychiatric disorders.
In Switzerland, she transitioned to clinical research by earning a master’s degree in Management of Clinical Trials. Since 2016, she has been with the Swiss Biobanking Platform, the reference research infrastructure for human and non-human biobanks funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, where she works now as Chief Scientific Officer.
Dr. Eleni Fthenou
Dr. Eleni Fthenou received her PhD from the Medical School of the University of Crete, Greece and her BSc in Genetics (Immunology) from the University of Aberdeen in the UK. She has worked at the Department of Health Research Governance at the Ministry of Public Health in Qatar, and she was highly involved in the development of Qatar’s national policies, regulations, and guidelines of health research for a safe and innovative research ecosystem in the country.
Dr. Fthenou has also worked as a scientist at the Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain, focusing her research on molecular epidemiology and the exposome. She was a Manager of the Clinical Nutrition and Epidemiology of Diseases Laboratory, at the Department of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Greece, designing and developing the biobank for the first mother-child cohort (Rhea study) in Greece.
Currently she holds the position of Scientist at Qatar Precision Health Institute focusing on the science of biobanking committed to the promotion of research in precision health, environmental epidemiology, and the translation of research findings into policy. She is the Lead PI of the Qatari Birth Cohort (QBiC) study in Qatar and her main research interest is in gene-environment interactions and molecular epidemiology.
Session details
- Date: Friday 16 May
- Time: 12:00-13:30