BBMRI-ERIC Podcast

Visit the fourth and final day of the Europe Biobank Week Congress in this mini-series covering the event - part of the BBMRI-ERIC Podcast.  Europe Biobank Week Congress is happening in Vienna, Austria from 14-17 May 2024. You’ll hear a flavour of the event and key interviews with organisers, speakers and delegates.  EBW is the most important event of the year for the global biobanking community....

Visit day three of the Europe Biobank Week Congress in this mini-series covering the event - part of the BBMRI-ERIC Podcast.  Europe Biobank Week Congress is happening in Vienna, Austria from 14-17 May 2024. You’ll hear a flavour of the event and key interviews with organisers, speakers and delegates.   EBW is the most important event of the year for the global biobanking community. The congress h...

Visit day two of the Europe Biobank Week Congress in this mini-series covering the event - part of the BBMRI-ERIC Podcast.  Europe Biobank Week Congress is happening in Vienna, Austria from 14-17 May 2024. You’ll hear a flavour of the event and key interviews with organisers, speakers and delegates.  EBW is the most important event of the year for the global biobanking community. The congress high...

Visit day one of the Europe Biobank Week Congress in this mini-series covering the event - part of the BBMRI-ERIC Podcast.  Europe Biobank Week Congress is happening in Vienna, Austria from 14-17 May 2024. You’ll hear a flavour of the event and key interviews with organisers, speakers and delegates.  EBW, organised by BBMRI-ERIC and ESBB, is the most important event of the year for the global biob...

“I would say that being in BBMRI-ERIC is a very good thing: it makes you sure that you are doing great things and you are going along with other countries which are much bigger, with more resources, more scientist, everything more” Andres Metspalu, BBMRI.ee. This is a two-part episode which shares stories from across BBMRI-ERIC’s Member States and communities that were presented at the BBMRI-ERIC...

“We as scientists, we as professionals, we as leaders have to first of all realise how the situation is changing, a change of epoch, and how to manage. Because for the first time, the dams that shaped our security are trying to break.” This episode shares the keynote address delivered by Professor Walter Ricciardi at the BBMRI-ERIC 10th anniversary workshop.  The anniversary event was held at the ...

Episode 12 introduces you to the canSERV project that focuses on providing over 400 cutting-edge and customised cancer research services. BBMRI-ERIC acts as coordinator for canSERV. The services and tools are made available to the cancer research community EU wide, enable innovative R&D projects and foster precision medicine for patients’ benefit across Europe. Experts from the project walk li...

Organoids are defined as three-dimensional (3D) cell culture systems that can be called “mini-organs” as they mimic some of the key multicellular, anatomical and even functional characteristics of real organs. Organoids are praised as a substitute for animal models in preclinical studies. At the same time, organoid technology raises issues around informed consent or privacy of donors. This episode...

The medical community is moving on a path towards more personalised and effective medical treatments and therapies for everyone. In doing so, it is crucial to integrate sex and gender into research as it has the potential to fuel structural and systemic change. This episode of ELSI Dialogues explores how providing the research community with the resources and information needed to include sex and...

“I learned that health care has a share of 6 to 8% in our total energy consumption - equal to the aviation sector. Although as health care researchers, we need to face this reality and act.” This episode of the BBMRI-ERIC podcast goes behind Amsterdam UMC’s recent win of the International Freezer Challenge to explore biobanking sustainability and carbon literacy. Jörg Hamann, Head of the Biobank a...

Biobank legislation is not harmonised at the European Union level, and the Member States have taken considerably divergent approaches in how they regulate the field. Whereas some countries do not have specific regulations, others have adopted complex biobank laws. This episode of ELSI Dialogues aims to present the unique legal framework for biobanking that is currently in place in Belgium. The Bel...

“This tissue is really representing the patient and that's what I find very interesting about biobanking. You don't need to be there to be in research.” This is the second of a two-part episode exploring the work of the BBMRI Stakeholder Forum Patient Pillar that brings together patient organisations from across Europe to help shape BBMRI’s biobanking related priorities and policies. You w...

“Cancer is traumatising, and you want to forget it as soon as possible, but some of us believe our experiences can be useful for others.” This first of a two-part episode looks at the work of the BBMRI Stakeholder Forum Patient Pillar that brings together patient organisations from across Europe to help shape BBMRI’s biobanking related priorities and policies. You will meet two members of the Pati...

“I think an ELSI expert is often seen as a patch for projects from the natural sciences. You can ask this ELSI expert anything that has to be solved in a certain way, it has to be a yes or no answer, then it’s done and you never have to talk about it again.”  This episode of the BBMRI-ERIC podcast joins the ELSI (ethical, legal, societal issues/implications) team from across Europe when they met i...

“We realised we needed to start something new to address the medical research reproducibility crisis.” Episode four of the BBMRI-ERIC podcast explores a paper that was recently published in Nature. It illustrates a lightweight distributed provenance model designed for complex, real-world, environments.  The paper has been researched and written by a wide-ranging group of experts and two of them, B...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in medicine are hoped to improve healthcare and to advance health equity. While the technology carries the potential to improve health services, the ethical and societal implications need to be carefully considered to avoid harmful consequences for individuals and groups, especially for the most vulnerable. It is therefore inevitable to identify what types...

The "Sex and Gender in Biomedical Research" webinar series, is "Visualising the Complexity of Sex Determination". The speaker, Amanda Montañez, explains the webinar as follows: At Scientific American, we communicate the latest and most important information about science, health, technology, the environment, and society to the public. We often use information graphics to help illum...

Andrea Wutte, Head of Quality Management at BBMRI-ERIC meets José Antonio López-Guerrero, Scientific Director of IVO Biobank to learn about how his team achieved the biobanking quality standard ISO 20387. IVO had the key support of Manuel Llombart Fuertes, Director General of Fundación Instituto Valencia De Oncología. The episode is introduced by Eva Ortega-Paíno, Spain’s National Node Director. ...