JAN-ERIC LITTON ABOUT THE EUROPE BIOBANK WEEK 2016
The recent Europe Biobank Week in Vienna “Biobanking for Health Innovation” conference concluded as a big success for the biobanking community bringing togeth
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CORBEL 1ST OPEN CALL FOR RESEARCH PROJECTS
CORBEL (www.corbel-project.eu) seeks to harmonise access to European research infrastructures joining their various expertise across the range of life science dis
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BIOBANK PERSPECTIVES NEWSLETTER
If you did not get your fill during the biobank week in Vienna, the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB) gives you more biobank related news. In this
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INTERVIEW WITH TUMORBANK @ UZA
Our Quality Manager, Andrea Wutte, presents her interview with Patrick Pauwels (Tumorbank curator), Sofie Goethals (Biobank manager) and Mieke De Wilde (Biobank q
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CLOSING CEREMONY AT THE EBW 2016
The Europe Biobank Week attracted 682 registrants who were able to participate in scientific sessions, workshops and satellite meetings, which got rounded off by
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INTERNATIONAL LIFE SCIENCES AWARD 2016
We are happy to announce that BBMRI-ERIC has been awarded as Best European Health Research Organisation. GHP Announces Winners of the 2016 International Life Sc
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WELCOME OUR NEW MEMBER STATE LATVIA
The Assembly of Members welcomes our 20th Member State! You can find more information about our new member here!
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BBMRI-ERIC WELCOMES CYPRUS
The Assembly of Members of BBMRI-ERIC welcomes Cyprus as an Observer. Find information about our latest National Node here: Cyprus
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BRIF PROGRESS:
How to cite your bioresource in articles: see the new CoBRA tutorial!
The BRIF & journal editors’ subgroup (A. Calzolari, P. Santoro & E. Bravo) has developed an educational video showing how to use the CoBRA guideline on Zenodo, with the aim of sharing it as an open access and publicly available tool.
See it there!
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BRIF DISSEMINATION:
- Research Data Alliance Workshop - CNRS 2016
19-20 April Paris, France
Bioresource research impact factor (framework) : BRIF. Invited speaker: Anne Cambon-Thomsen
- 15th EAHIL (European Association for Health Information and Libraries) 2016 Conference
6-11 June, Seville, Spain
CoBRA Guideline is now available to standardize citations of bioresources in journal articles. Poster: Federica Napolitani, Elena Bravo, Alessia Calzolari, Anne Cambon-Thomsen, Laurence Mabile, Anna Maria Rossi, Paola De Castro
- 20th International Conference on Electronic Publishing
7-9 June 2016, Göttingen, Germany
Towards New Metrics For Bioresource Use. In Positioning and Power in Academic Publishing: Players, Agents and Agendas. Article & oral presentation: Mabile Laurence, Paola De Castro, Elena Bravo, Barbara Parodi, Mogens Thomsen, Samuel Moore, and Anne Cambon-Thomsen
- Rencontres toulousaines C3R
9 June 2016, Toulouse, France
Modalités de citation des CRB dans les publications. Pourquoi l’harmonisation proposée par BRIF représente un atout. Speaker: Anne Cambon-Thomsen
- EASE (European Association of Science Editors) conference 2016
10-12 June, Strasbourg, France
The CoBRA guidelines for citation of bioresources. Invited speaker: Anne Cambon-Thomsen for the BRIF and journal editors group.
- Biomolecular and Bioinformatics Resources Platform, PRB2 Annual Meeting
4 July 2016 , Madrid, Spain
Aims and role of BRIF Bioresource research impact framework. Speaker: Anne Cambon-Thomsen.
- ESOF 2016, EuroScience Open Forum
23-27 July, Manchester, UK
Metrics and impact factors of what? The example of BRIF, Bioresource Research Impact Factor. In session ‘Research assessment: New metrics? More metrics? No metrics?’. Speaker: Anne Cambon-Thomsen
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Kurt Zatloukal and Anna Durnova from BBMRI.at in Radio Ö1
About biobanks, patients and the Europe Biobank Week "Über Biobanken, Patienten und die Konferenz Europe Biobank Week in Wien"
The full article can be found at
BBMRI.at
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Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs) for human and animal biomaterials
BBMRI.at in cooperation with experts from university and pharma and life science industry jointly worked out 'Standard Model Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs)' for the transfer for human and veterinary biomaterials, respectively. These MTAs are available for free download and use.
Fhe full article can be found at
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