#EBW26 Previews: 9C: Disease domain-specific biobanks – Neuroscience insights
This session highlights biobanks advancing research on neurological and psychiatric disorders. Learn about innovative methods for collecting, managing, and sharing samples and data across diagnostics and research. Hear how these biobanks drive molecular insights into diseases with often unclear underpinnings and limited diagnostic markers.
Speakers included in this session:
- Viktor Molnár – From federated pilot to National Node: Advancing neurodegenerative biobanks through data quality and phenotype clustering
- Marta Kalousova – The role of biobank in introduction of a new biomarker – NfL (neurofilament light chain) to clinical practice – from research to diagnostics thanks to biobank
- Paola Valentino – The role of the CRESM Biobank and its sample sharing in advancing multiple sclerosis research
- Pieter Moons – Banking the brain
This session will be chaired by:
Mieke De Wilde, MSc.
From an initial background in neuroscience, Mieke De Wilde gathered 15 years of experience in biobanking. She is an ESBB council member and ISBER Standards Community of practice member. She’s currently employed as a BBMRI.be Quality Coordinator supporting ISO20387 implementation, as well as harmonisation initiatives in IT, ELSI and sustainability.
Dr. Maria Judit Molnar
Dr. Maria Judit Molnar is a distinguished Hungarian physician and researcher specialising in neurology, psychiatry, clinical genetics and rare disorders. She directs the Institute of Genomic Medicine and Rare Disorders at Semmelweis University and serves as Director of the Hungarian Node of BBMRI-ERIC, advancing personalised medicine and rare neurological disease research through leadership, innovation and international collaboration.
Session details
- Date: Thursday 21 May
- Time: 16:45 – 17:45