Programme
You can find the draft 2024 programme below. This will be continually updated, and further detailed, as session participants are confirmed.
Outline
Tuesday 14 May
- 08:00 – Registration opens
- 13:00 – Pre-conference workshops (included with ticket)
- Making your way to ISO 20387 accreditation
- Information security issues for biobankers + BBMRI-ERIC Federated Platform
- Greening of Biobanking
- Ethics of AI: Hypes, Hopes, and Risks of AI in Biobanking
- Citizen/patient involvement in biobanking. Discuss the need and feasibility with us!
- 16:30 – Free time to discover Vienna and network
Wednesday 15 May
- 08:00 – Registration opens
- 09:00 – Opening ceremony with ESBB/BBMRI-ERIC leadership, VIP speaker and BBMRI.at
- 10:30 – Refreshments, exhibition and posters
- 11:00 – Keynote I: Biobanking for Precision and Genomics Medicine. UK Biobank: scale, depth, duration … but, most importantly, accessibility – Sir Rory Collins, Principal Investigator and Chief Executive, UK Biobank.
- 12:30 – Lunch, exhibition and corporate workshop
- 14:00 – Parallel sessions I:
- Precision medicine: Role of biobanks in the future of healthcare research
- Quality Management and pre-analytics: Pre-analytic impact on sample quality – means & measures. Session led by state-of-the-art speaker Dr. Veronica Ghini from University of Florence. Session chairs: Prof. Radka Kaneva from Medical University of Sofia and Dr. Rocío Aguilar Quesada from the Andalusian Public Health System Biobank
- Stakeholders in the spotlight: Training and education for quality improvement and knowledge generation
- Organisational profiles
- 15:30 – Refreshments, exhibition and posters
- 16:00 – Poster session I
- 17:00 – Parallel sessions II:
- Precision medicine: Success stories – Biobanks fostering medical progress
- Quality Management and pre-analytics: The road towards ISO 20387 accreditation. Session led by state-of-the-art speaker Dr. Lila Kallio from Auria Biobank. Session chairs: Prof. Agnieszka Matera-Witkiewicz, from Wroclaw Medical University and Dr. José Antonio López-Guerrero from Instituto Valenciano de Oncología (IVO)
- Stakeholders in the spotlight: Information security and data privacy. Session led by state-of-the-art speaker Nathalie Poupaert from Fieldfisher (Belgium). Session chairs: Dr. Michal Malewicz, National Node Director of BBMRI.pl and Lisa Oster from Bruker BioSpin
- Corporate workshop
- 18:30 – Welcome reception
Thursday 16 May
- 08:00 – Registration opens
- 09:00 – Parallel sessions III:
- One health: Public Health Emergencies – Growing importance in the One Health concept
- Quality: New sample types and methods: Modelling and regenerative medicine – artificial cellular models. Session led by state-of-the-art speakers Ass. Prof. Jan Bouchal from the Department of Clinical and Molecular Pathology in Olomouc, Czechia and Prof. Karine Sargsyan from the Cedars-Sinai MedicalCenter in Beverly Hills, California, US. Session chair: Dr. Anna Michalska-Falkowska from the Medical University in Bialystok
- Stakeholders in the spotlight: Ethical, social and legal topics in biobanking – friend or foe. Session led by state-of-the-art speaker Assoc. Prof. Signe Mežinska from University of Latvia. Session chair: Dr. Valentina Colcelli.
- Rare diseases. Session led by state-of-the-art speaker: Prof. Dr. Uğur Özbek from Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center-IBG. Session chairs: Prof. Constantinos Deltas from the Medical School of the University of Cyprus and Prof. Neşe Atabey from the Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center (IBG)
- 10:30 – Refreshments, exhibition and posters
- 11:00 – Keynote II: Biobanking with Underrepresented Populations: The Critical Role of Participant Engagement delivered by Dr. Gillian Bartlett, from the School of Medicine at the University of Missouri
- 12:30 – Lunch, exhibition and corporate workshop
- 14:00 – Parallel sessions IV:
- One health: Bioinformatics and -omics and big data
- Quality: New sample types and methods: Microbiome – the known unknown. Session chair: Dr. Loes D.F. Linsen from the Biobank University Hospitals Leuven
- Stakeholders in the spotlight: “Be aware of biobanking” – outreach and communication in and for biobanks. Session led by state-of-the-art speakers Emma Hvitfeldt and Christian Bruzelius from Biobank Sweden. Session chair: Dr. Ronny Baber from the University Hospital Leipzig
- Citizen & Patient Involvement: Emerging best practices? (interactive session). Session chairs: Dr. Ciara Staunton, ESBB and Dr. Eric Vermeulen, chair of the BBMRI.ERIC Stakeholder Forum Patient and Citizens Pillar
- 15:30 – Refreshments, exhibition and posters
- 16:00 – Poster session II
- 17:00 – Parallel sessions V:
- One health: Epidemiological biobanking – cohorts as a show window for populations. Session led by state-of-the-art speakers Dr. Seow Shih Wee from Precision Health Research, Singapore (PRECISE) and Assoc. Prof. Therese Nøst from University of Tromsø (UiT). Session chairs: Fatima Qafoud from Qatar Biobank and Professor Kristian Hveem from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
- Quality: New sample types and methods: Getting more from less – liquid biopsies, biopsies and fine needle aspirates for molecular techniques*
- Stakeholders in the spotlight: Partnerships towards real world data – opportunities, needs and hurdles
- Corporate workshop
- 19:30 – Networking dinner
Friday 17 May
- 08:00 – Registration opens
- 09:00 – Ethics café – This interactive session aims at facilitating an exchange of thoughts and knowledge about pressing ethical issues. The ignition for this year’s topic on ethics committees and biobanks is given by Prof. Josef Haas. We count on your insights and experiences to bring different viewpoints forward and engage in the exchange that this format provides. Session chairs: Dr. Michaela Th. Mayrhofer and Dr. Pieter Moons.
- 10:30 – Brunch, exhibition and corporate workshop
- 12:00 – Parallel sessions VI:
- Precision medicine: Artificial intelligence in Precision Medicine
- Quality management and pre-analytics: Tools to achieve quality – (new) standards for biobanks. Session led by state-of-the-art speakers: Dr. Khalil Roy from Swiss Biobanking Platform, Marc Vandelaer from Trustful Consulting and Clare Allocca from NIST. Session chairs: Dr. Christine Joye, from the Swiss Biobanking Platform and Mieke De Wilde, from BBMRI.be
- Stakeholders in the spotlight: Green biobanking and sustainability
- 13:30 – Awards and closing ceremony