Full programme
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Abstract books
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Tuesday 13 May
| Time | Title |
| 08:30 | Registration opens |
| 09:30-11:30 | Workshop related local visits |
| 09:30-12:30 | BBMRI-ERIC and ESBB internal meetings |
| 13:00-15:00 | Workshops one to four |
| 15:00-15:30 | Refreshments |
| 15:30-17:30 | Workshops one to four |
Wednesday 14 May
| Time | Title |
| 08:00 | Registration opens |
| 09:00-10:30 | Opening ceremony |
| 10:30-11:00 | Refreshments |
| 11:00-12:30 | Plenary – keynote one Prof. Walter Ricciardi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome – The need for courageous leadership in science and health in challenging times Chairs: Dr. Agnieszka Matera-Witkiewicz, ESBB and Prof. Jens K. Habermann, BBMRI-ERIC |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch and exhibition Corporate workshop Pitch your innovative idea Vendor tour |
| 14:00-15:30 | Parallel sessions one 3A: One Health: Non-human biobanking Chairs – Mag. (FH). Cornelia Stumptner, BBMRI.at and Prof. Markus Ulrich, ESBB SoA Speaker: Dominic Bläsing – Establishing One Health Exploratories: A Holistic Approach to Integrative Health Monitoring Davide Faggionato – How to “do” the Nagoya Protocol: common misconceptions and practical advice for access and benefit-sharing compliance Joséphine Uldry – Advancing One Health and Non-Human Biobanking: The Future of the Swiss Network 3B: Biobanks in big data research and AI Chairs – Dr. Heimo Müller, BBMRI-ERIC and Dipl.-Ing. Roland Leiminger, ESBB SoA Speaker: Peter Hufnagl – paper title tbc Agnieszka Matera-Witkiewicz – Biobanks as strategic tools in the concept of national digital medicine centres network establishment in Poland Pauli Wihuri – Federated research infrastructure: Interoperable trusted research environments for researchers by biobanks Soichi Ogishima – Emerging challenges of Biobank Network Japan: transformation biobank through AI technologies 3C: Biobank automation: Challenges, opportunities and solutions Chairs – Fatima Qafoud, BBMRI.qa and Loes Linsen, ESBB 3D: Empowering the next generation: Education and training in biobanking Chairs – Sara Nußbeck, BBMRI.de and Karine Sargsyan, ESBB SoA Speaker: Peggy Manders – Future in biobanking: a teaching course for biomedical students Valeria Di Cola – Advancing Biobanking Education: Updates and Insights from the new CAS in Biobanking a successful program designed in Switzerland open to an international audience Tixier-Boichard M. – Updating domestic animal biobanks on cellular models – A training workshop Olga Tzortzatou-Nanopoulou – Developing tools for education in biobanking: the “SCIence outreach: The example of BIObanks in Europe” ERASMUS+ project |
| 15:30-16:00 | Refreshments, exhibition and posters |
| 16:00-17:00 | Posters: session one |
| 17:00-17:30 | Podium discussion: Industry & academic co-creation towards personalised medicine in light of global challenges |
| 17:30-19:00 | Parallel sessions two 4A: Clinical biobanks: Bridging research and patient care Chairs – Dr. Christine Joye, Swiss Biobanking Platform and Dr. Rocio Aguilar-Quesada, Andalusian Public Health System Biobank SoA Speaker: Tilman Pfeffer – Infectious diseases tissue biobanking and biodata management of the German Center for Infection Research – a key infrastructure for multiple research approaches Marwa Eldeeb – Title tbc Sarah Preisler – Biobanking from a pharmaceutical company perspective Jose Antonio Lopez-Guerrero – Five Years of Insights from the GEICO Registry (GEICO 81-T): a Virtual Gynecological Cancer Clinical Registry with Decentralized Biospecimen Collection 4B: Navigating the technical hurdles of the upcoming European data spaces Chairs – Petr Holub, BBMRI-ERIC and Ricard Martinez Martinez, ESBB 4C: Implementing and securing quality control in biobanking Chairs – Teresa Escámez, BBMRI.es and Olga Kofanova, ESBB 4D: Balancing ethics and innovation: ELSI in biobanking Chairs – Marialuisa Lavitrano, BBMRI.it and Valentina Colcelli, ESBB. SoA Speaker: Sara Casati – Co-creating the informative BBMRI.it “ecosystem” for the next-generation biobank. Integrated consent matrices, as the backbone of the BBMRI app, full recognition of the biobank as guarantor of rights, principles and processes, digitized publicity of biobank activities Melanie Goisauf – An embedded ethics approach to trustworthy AI for transformative healthcare Joerg Geiger – Electronic Consent – the key to compliant, secure and efficient biobanking Deborah Mascalzoni – How will the new WHO and WMA guidance policies impact biobanking, individuals and communities |
| 19:00 | Welcome reception |
Thursday 15 May
| Time | Title |
| 08:00 | Registration opens |
| 09:00-10:30 | Parallel sessions three 5A: Rare disease biobank insights Chairs – Dr. Sissy Kolyva, Hellenic Pasteur Institute and Dr. Hélène Blanché, Fondation Jean Dausset-CEPH 5B: Ensuring data security in biobanks: Strategies and best practices Chairs – Georg Göbel, BBMRI.at and Blazej Marciniak, ESBB 5C: Samples fit-for-purpose: Optimisation of pre-analytics Chairs – Daiva Dabkeviciene, BBMRI.lt and Peter Riegman, ESBB 7D: Patient-centric biobanking: Strategies for engagement and participation Chairs – Eric Vermeulen (Chair of the BBMRI-ERIC Stakeholder Forum Patient and Citizens’ Pillar) and Deborah Mascalzoni, ESBB SoA Speaker: Cortell Granero – Digital Transformation in Biobanking: The Implementation of eConsent at the Valencian Institute of Oncolgy (IVO) Biobank Daniel Alba-Olano – The challenge of building cohorts beyond hospital walls Miriam Beusink – Evaluation and lessons learned regarding the ABOARD cohort panel: a citizen panel advising on an Alzheimer’s disease cohort study Isabelle Budin-Ljosne – What motivates (or demotivates) young adults to participate in longitudinal cohort studies |
| 10:30-11:00 | Refreshments |
| 11:00-12:30 | Plenary – keynote two Prof. Dr. Lili Milani, University of Tartu – Bringing the benefits of biobanking closer to the people Chairs: Prof. Dr. Jens Habermann, BBMRI-ERIC and Dipl.-Ing. Roland Leiminger, ESBB |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch and exhibition Corporate workshop Pitch your innovative idea Vendor tour |
| 14:00-15:30 | Parallel sessions four 7A: Green biobanking: Paving the path to sustainable practices Chairs – Dr. Jörg Hamann, Amsterdam UMC and Rolf Morselt, Askion GmbH SoA Speaker: Monika Valjan – Foster environmental sustainable practices at the Biobank Graz – How to calculate your Biobanks carbon footprint. Saba Abdulghani – Green Biobanking: gaps and challenges Werner Strasser – FragmentiX and AI in the context of green computing Luisa Minghetti – VIVA: A Cutting-Edge Biobank for Translational Research and Sustainable Development 7B: Data flows in healthcare integrated biobanking Chairs – Zdenka Dudova, BBMRI.cz and Daniel Brucker, ESBB SoA Speaker: Mindaugas Morkunas – Information System Architecture of the Lithuanian National Biobanking Infrastructure Ines Santiuste – Integration of the Biobank Information Management System (BIMS) with the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Antonella Cruoglio / Alice Massacci – An Extract, Transform, Load foundation for Biobank Data Interoperability Michael Neumann – Electronic Order Entry and Biobank Registration for Tissue Samples 7E: EP PerMed – Unlocking biobanks for personalised medicine Chairs – Gianni D’Errico, BBMRI.it and Christine Hasenauer, ESBB SoA Speaker: Kristian Hveem (National Node Director of “Biobank Norway”) Lili Milani – Biobanking and personalised medicine Flash poster presentation – Poster Flash Presentation canSERV – providing cutting edge cancer research services across Europe and establishing a European Molecular Tumour Board Network Flash Poster Presentation – Enriching the biobanks collections by refined data returned from previous projects – case study of T-cell receptor sequence data Round table discussion – Moderator: Andrea Frosini (TLS); Panelists: Kristian Hveem, Lili Milani, Luisa Minghetti. Further details to be announced. 5D: Securing the future of biobanks: New collaboration models for sustainability Chairs – Nikolai Pace, BBMRI.mt and Outi Törnwall, ESBB SoA Speaker: Peggy Manders – Towards sustainable biobanking by increasing researchers’ financial contribution Christine Joye – Swiss Biobanking Platform’s switch from a service development to a service utilization platform Manon Huizing – Developing a Cost Visualization and Calculation Tool for Sustainable Biobanking by the Diverse Biobank Organizations in Belgium Katerina Nováková – Enhancing Sustainability through Industry Collaboration: Insights from the Czech Experience |
| 15:30-16:00 | Refreshments, exhibition and posters |
| 16:00-17:00 | Posters: session two |
| 17:00-18:00 | Parallel sessions five 8A: The transformative role of biobanks in public health Chairs – Zisis Kozlaidis, BBMRI.IARC and Nahla Afifi, ESBB. SoA Speakers: Nicole Großkinsky, Sabrina Schmitt and Katharina Hofmann – Biobanking in the German National Cohort (NAKO): A Pivotal Resource for Epidemiological Research + The Tumor Tissue Bank of the German National Cohort (NAKO): Pilot of a Centralized Epidemiologically Networked Biobanking Estrid Høgdall – p53 protein expression, TP53 gene mutations, and in silico p53 activity as prognostic markers for ovarian cancer Even Birkeland – From multi-omics to better health – Managing the biological data resource in the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) Fatima Qafoud – Bridging Continents, Advancing Health: Qatar Biobank’s Vision for a New Era in Precision Health 8B: Best practices for biobanking data integration Chairs – Anne-Marie Vangsted, BBMRI.dk and Ayat Salman, ESBB 8C: Special samples, special needs. Chairs – Anna Beskow, BBMRI.se and Micheline Sanderson, ESBB 8D: Connecting forces: Effective stakeholder management Chairs – Annelies Debucquoy, BBMRI.be and Rosita Kammler, ESBB SoA Speaker: Anne-Marie Vangsted – Building Public Trust: Informing 1.3 Million Danes About Their Stored Samples Katia Pozyuchenko – Biobank Outreach: Key Challenges and Approaches Verena Huth – Fostering Biobank Sustainability and Patient Participation through Collaborative Advocacy Eric Vermeulen – Guidance for public involvement and engagement (PPIE) in biobanking |
| 18:00-19:00 | Closed meetings |
| 19:00 | Networking dinner * |
* Separate ticket booked when registering
Friday 16 May
| Time | Title |
| 08:00 | Registration opens |
| 09:00-10:30 | 9A: Ethics Café 7C: Innovative quality concepts Chairs – Monica Forni, BBMRI.it and Annemieke De Wilde, ESBB |
| 10:30-12:00 | Brunch, exhibition and posters |
| 12:00-13:30 | Parallel sessions six 10A: Organisational profiles Chairs – Mária Judit Molnár, BBMRI.hu and Elke Smits, ESBB SoA Speaker: Sandra Nanyonga – Pan-African Biobanking Network (PABNet): Strengthening the African Biobanking Community Natascha Perales Selva – Bridging departments: A Standardized Form to Streamline Sample Management Across the Hospital Manuela Pausan – canSERV – providing cutting edge cancer research services across Europe Valentina Ancarani – The importance of a functioning Disaster Recovery Plan: the successful experience of IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) “Dino Amadori”, Meldola, Italy during the 2023 flood 10B: Ensuring excellence: Elevating data quality in biobanking Chairs – Dr. Sabine Bavamian, Swiss Biobanking Platform and Dr. Eleni Fthenou, Qatar Biobank 10C: Samples read for multi-omics research Chairs – Radka Kaneva, BBMRI.bg and Ronny Baber, ESBB Hou-Wei Chu – Unraveling Complex Disease Etiology: Insights from the Taiwan Biobank’s Multiomics Data Noomi O. Gregersen – Multi-Omics Resources from the Faroe Islands: The FarGen 2 Project Diana Drettwan – On the road to diabetes: how biobanking-backed metabolomic digital twinning improves risk assessment and early diagnostics. Martina Betti – Enhancing Multi-Omics Data Interpretation and Robustness through AI-Driven Digital Pathology G. De Palma – BIOMIS the italian human microbiota biobank ready to contribute to meta-omics applications 10D: Emerging EU regulations unveiled: Latest ELSI developments and national perspectives Chairs – Vita Rovite, BBMRI.lv and Anne Costello, ESBB SoA Speaker: Pieter Moons – Interplay between the Belgian biobank legislation and EU level CTR, MDR/IVDR regulations I. Schlunder – Challenges for biobanks under the EHDS Regulations; introduction of opt-out as a standard form of individuals’ participation in the use of their data Erdina Ene – EHDS Implications for biobanks as data holders and data users Peggy Manders – European Health Data Space – The current state of affairs in the Netherlands |
| 13:30-14:00 | Awards and closing ceremony |