#EBW24 previews: Programme update

EBW24 Previews

15/02/2024

Programme

You can find the draft 2024 programme below. This will be continually updated, and further detailed, as session participants are confirmed. We will shortly be releasing the call for abstracts so if there is a theme that interests you, keep an eye on this page for news.

Outline

Tuesday 14 May

08:00 – Registration opens
13:00 – Pre-conference workshops and ESBB/BBMRI meetings
16:00 – Free time to discover Vienna and network

Wednesday 15 May

08:00 – Registration opens
09:00 – Opening ceremony with ESBB/BBMRI-ERIC leadership, VIP speaker and BBMRI.at
10:30 – Refreshments, exhibition and posters
11:00 – Keynote I: Biobanking for Precision and Genomics Medicine with Professor Sir Rory Collins, Principal Investigator, UK Biobank
12:30 – Lunch, exhibition and corporate workshop
14:00 – Parallel sessions I:
- Precision medicine: Role of biobanks in the future of healthcare research
- Quality Management and pre-analytics: Pre-analytic impact on sample quality – means & measures
- Stakeholders in the spotlight: Training and education for quality improvement and knowledge generation
- Human biomonitoring
15:30 – Refreshments, exhibition and posters
16:00 – Poster session I
17:00 – Parallel sessions II:
- Precision medicine: Success stories – Biobanks fostering medical progress
- Quality Management and pre-analytics: The road towards ISO 20387 accreditation
- Stakeholders in the spotlight: Information security and data privacy
- Corporate workshop
18:30 – Welcome reception

Thursday 16 May

08:00 – Registration opens
09:00 – Parallel sessions III:
- One health: Public Health Emergencies – Growing importance in the One Health concept
- Quality: New sample types and methods: Modelling and regenerative medicine – artificial cellular models
- Stakeholders in the spotlight: Ethical, social and legal topics in biobanking – friend or foe
- Rare diseases
10:30 – Refreshments, exhibition and posters
11:00 – Keynote II: Environment and biodiversity (One Health) with Professor Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant, Department of Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Medical Epidemiology, University of Missouri-Columbia
12:30 – Lunch, exhibition and corporate workshop
14:00 – Parallel sessions IV:
- One health: Bioinformatics and -omics and big data
- Quality: New sample types and methods: Microbiome – the known unknown
- Stakeholders in the spotlight: “Be aware of biobanking” – outreach and communication in and for biobanks
- Ethics – patient advocates (interactive session)
15:30 – Refreshments, exhibition and posters
16:00 – Poster session II
17:00 – Parallel sessions V:
- One health: Epidemiological biobanking – cohorts as a show window for populations
- Quality: New sample types and methods: Getting more from less – liquid biopsies, biopsies and fine needle aspirates for molecular techniques*
- Stakeholders in the spotlight: Partnerships towards real world data – opportunities, needs and hurdles
- Corporate workshop
18:30 – Networking dinner

Friday 17 May

08:00 – Registration opens
09:00 – Ethics café
10:30 – Brunch, exhibition and corporate workshop
12:00 – Parallel sessions VI:
- Precision medicine: Artificial intelligence in Precision Medicine
- Quality management and pre-analytics: Tools to achieve quality – (new) standards for biobanks
- Stakeholders in the spotlight: Green biobanking and sustainability
- Plant biobanking
13:30 – Awards and closing ceremony