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#EBW24 Live: Congress Radio – Europe Biobank Week 2024 – Day Three

Visit day three of the Europe Biobank Week Congress in this mini-series covering the event – part of the BBMRI-ERIC Podcast.  Powered by RedCircle Europe Biobank Week Congress is happening in Vienna, Austria from 14-17 May 2024. You’ll hear a flavour of the event and key interviews with organisers, speakers and delegates.  EBW is the most important event of the […]

#EBW24 Live: Congress Radio – Europe Biobank Week 2024 – Day Two

Visit day two of the Europe Biobank Week Congress in this mini-series covering the event – part of the BBMRI-ERIC Podcast.  Powered by RedCircle Europe Biobank Week Congress is happening in Vienna, Austria from 14-17 May 2024. You’ll hear a flavour of the event and key interviews with organisers, speakers and delegates.  EBW is the most important event of the […]

#EBW24 Live: Congress Radio – Europe Biobank Week 2024 – Day One

Visit day one of the Europe Biobank Week Congress in this mini-series covering the event – part of the BBMRI-ERIC Podcast.  Powered by RedCircle Europe Biobank Week Congress is happening in Vienna, Austria from 14-17 May 2024. You’ll hear a flavour of the event and key interviews with organisers, speakers and delegates.  EBW, organised by BBMRI-ERIC and ESBB, is the […]

#EBW24 Live: Europe Biobank Week opens in Vienna for major post-pandemic congress  

The Europe Biobank Week (EBW) Congress, jointly organised between BBMRI-ERIC (the European Research Infrastructure for Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources in Health and Life Science) and ESBB (the European, African and Middle Eastern Society for Biobanking and Biopreservation) is back for 2024 and will take place from 14-17 May at The Hofburg in Vienna, Austria. The 2024 congress theme is: “Strengthening Biobanks and Biorepositories: Collaborative approaches for a […]

#EBW24 Previews: Detailed programme and abstract books online

The final arrangements for the congress are falling into place and you can now access the full programme on the website. The programme is being continuously updated. In addition, every oral and poster being presented is accompanied by an abstract that can be read in the congress books. Downloads PDFs of the Poster abstracts and Oral presentation abstracts. Don’t forget to […]

#EBW24 previews: Workshop details released

The workshop details have been released and can be found on a dedicated page. All delegates are able to book onto Congress workshops as part of the ticket price. They take place on the afternoon of Tuesday 14 May. Due to limited seats, these are allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. When you book your ticket, you will then receive a separate […]

#EBW24 Editorial: MICROBE – MICRObiome Biobanking (RI) Enabler

This article comes from the MICROBE team. You can read about the project here – it kicked off in March 2023 at BBMRI.at. Microbiomes comprise communities of microorganisms (i.e., bacteria, archaea, protists, fungi and microalgae) and their “theatre of activity” (i.e., structural elements, metabolites, signal molecules, mobile genetic elements (such as viruses), as well as surrounding environmental conditions)1. They are […]

#EBW24 Editorial: Unlocking the Power of Veterinary Samples and Biobanking – A Promising Source for ”One-Health” Research

This article comes from the team at VetBiobank who will be presenting at EBW24. What you do? The VetBiobank collects veterinary samples from the clinics of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. Its aim is to archive high-quality samples from diseased animals and corresponding healthy reference controls for research purposes. Currently, the collections mainly consist of tumor and healthy reference […]

#EBW24 previews: Keynote with Sir Rory Collins, UK Biobank

We are delighted that the first day keynote of #EBW24 will be delivered by Sir Rory Collins, Principal Investigator and Chief Executive of UK Biobank. The subject of the keynote will be ‘UK Biobank: scale, depth, duration … but, most importantly, accessibility’. Sir Rory Collins’ talk will provide information about UK Biobank, highlight recent enhancements, and introduce their cloud-based Research […]

#EBW24 previews: Programme update

Programme You can find the draft 2024 programme below. This will be continually updated, and further detailed, as session participants are confirmed. We will shortly be releasing the call for abstracts so if there is a theme that interests you, keep an eye on this page for news. Outline Tuesday 14 May Wednesday 15 May Thursday 16 May Friday 17 May