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
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...
