The Netherlands joins the million european genomes alliancea
Dutch Minister of Medical Care and Sports, Mr. Bruno Bruins, has co-signed the European Declaration about the Million European Genomes initiative on behalf of...
28 September 2018
Poster prize at Europe Biobank Week 2018
Collecting ideas with an interactive poster presentation and being awarded a poster prize? Rogier van der Stijl from BBMRI-NL did it!
21 September 2018
Enabling FAIR Data management
MOLGENIS Research can help even non-bioinformaticians (!) enabling FAIR data management and is freely available.
20 September 2018
Cisca Wijmenga inaugurated as the Lodewijk Sandkuijl Endowed Chair
At the Lodewijk Sandkuijl Symposium, Prof. dr. Cisca Wijmenga, Scientific Director of BBMRI-NL 2.0, was appointed Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion...
17 September 2018
X-chromosome publication in nature communications
René Luijk, Bas Heijmans from Leiden UMC and BBMRI-NL, and co-workers report in Nature Communications on new genes controlling X chromosome inactivation in...
14 September 2018
Development of an extensive Omics Atlas
Since the start of BBMRI, extensive datasets have been generated at genome, epigenome, transcriptome and metabolome level for 10 thousand of individuals from...
19 July 2018
BBMRI-NL workshop report: sustainable infrastructure for sample/data collections
Sample and data infrastructures in the medical sciences, such as biobanks and medical registries, need to run over prolonged periods of time in order to gather...
18 July 2018
White paper on self-measured data published
Recently, BBMRI-NL researchers published a White Paper on self-measured data and how researchers can ensure that self-measured data is usable.
09 July 2018
Launch national servicedesk personalized medicine
Today, the ELSI (Ethical, Legal and Social Implications) Servicedesk is officially launched.
28 June 2018
Million European Genomes alliance: The Netherlands should join
In April 2018, thirteen European countries signed a declaration of cooperation ‘towards access to at least one million sequenced genomes in the European Union...
18 June 2018
How can researchers deal with incidental findings? Guidance document gives practical tools
Incidental findings are a major ethical concern in biomedical research. Consistent policies and practices for the detection, management and communication of...
18 June 2018
Roadshow PALGA Portal in full swing!
The PALGA Portal, the one-stop-shop to request pathology data and material from diagnostic pathology laboratories, is up and running for two years now.
