Biobanks have become complex infrastructures that play an important role in health research. In combination with the advances in molecular medicine and...
28 August 2019
Navigating the moral maze of open-ended data collection
On June 6, 2019, Martin Boeckhout, Senior Consultant at the MLC Foundation , successfully defended his PhD thesis on ‘ The Ethics and Governance of Health...
Press release
22 August 2019
Biomarker measurement in blood helps estimate vulnerability of elderly people
Researchers specialized in aging have found a combination of biomarkers in the blood that can help to estimate the health status and vulnerability of elderly...
19 July 2019
DARE-4-LIFE – building on the success of BBMRI.nl
A Digital Accelerator in REsearch – For a LIFEjourney of health
19 July 2019
COMETS and BBMRI-Omics join forces
First joint meeting was held on June 22, preceding the Metabolomics Conference 2019 in The Hague.
18 July 2019
The first ELSI Servicedesk Anniversary
Guidance and answers on ethical, legal and societal issues that research on personalized medicine raises. That is what the ELSI Servicedesk promised to deliver...
13 May 2019
Dutch BBMRI researchers in top 10 of prominent GWAS authors
Researchers at the University of Oxford and Nuffield College did a scientometric review of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) from 2005 to 2018. GWAS...
02 May 2019
GDPR may hinder collaborations outside EU
BBMRI.nl, Health-RI and Coreon wrote a letter to the members of the European Data Protection Board warning that the requirement to comply fully with the GDPR...
01 May 2019
We want to be the Amazon for biosamples and data
Select the biosamples or patient data you are looking for and get them delivered to your doorstep, whenever and wherever you need them – just like Amazon or...
29 March 2019
BBMRI-NL is drafting a proposal for National Roadmap Large-Scale Research Infrastructure
A Large-Scale Research Infrastructure (LSRI) can only be realised through a joint effort of all parties involved. The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific...
05 March 2019
Finding new answers in old medical records
Do all young women diagnosed with breast cancer really need adjuvant cancer treatment such as chemotherapy or hormone therapy after surgery to lower the risk...
11 January 2019
Treasuring hard won citizens' trust
Panel discussion at next week’s Health-RI Conference (Jan 17, 2019) will formulate ideas and encapsulate opinion on the need for collective decision-making to...
