In response to the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) local research actions are taking place across the world. Health-RI launched the Dutch Covid-19...
14 April 2020
Collector items that help treating rare lung disease
The ILD Biobank stores tissue of patients with Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) for scientific research to find treatment. Fifteen years of collecting body...
16 March 2020
Biobanken.nl on Rare Disease Day 2020
In their search for better treatment and diagnosis, medical researchers use patient material and data stored in biobanks. The website biobanken.nl was set up...
07 February 2020
Biobanken.nl now updated and live!
The website Biobanken.nl provides biobanks with the opportunity to communicate information about biobanking and biobank research to the general public. On the...
31 January 2020
10 years BBMRI at Health-RI conference
10 years ago BBMRI.nl started building the joint national infrastructure necessary to make maximal use of biosamples, images and data for health research. This...
Event
30 January 2020
Health-RI Conference 2020 report
Take a brief look back at the Health-RI Conference 2020 “Towards data driven health”. Where leading experts highlighted how data is helping us to remain...
Event
15 January 2020
ELSI servicedesk workshops: Responsible use of body material and data
Workshops on responsible use of residual tissue and data (in Dutch)
10 January 2020
The strength of collaboration between biobanks
Researchers at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam discovered that the level of specific blood metabolites is heritable and that part of the heritability is...
Press release
20 September 2019
What biobankers and researchers think about ELSI
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
