Programme
A full day of talks, connections, and shared perspectives — bringing together the Swiss and international biobanking community to mark a decade of progress and look towards the next ten years.
Prof. Carlo Largiadèr
President of SBP and Head of Liquid Biobank Bern
Welcome
Karin Frei
Journalist & Certified Mediator
Moderation
Prof. Martin Fiedler
Medical Director of Insel Gruppe
SNSF representative
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
10 years anniversaries
Dr. Christine Joye
Executive Director of Swiss Biobanking
Prof. Carlo Largiadèr
President of SBP and Head of Liquid Biobank Bern
Prof. Adrian Egli
Director, Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich
The value of freezing microbes
Dr. Michaël Weisskopf
Head Research Biobanking Service Center at Universitätsspital Zürich
Prof. Jivko Stoyanov
Group Leader at Swiss Paraplegic Research. Head of the SwiSCI Biobank
From Biospecimens to Digital Rehabilomics: The SwiSCI Biobank as a National Platform for Spinal Cord Injury Research
Discussion on challenges
with the three infrastructures and Prof. Largiadèr
Poster Session I
Prof. Jens Habermann
BBMRI-ERIC Director General
Dr. Sara Nussbeck
Head of Central Biobank UMG
Netzwerk NUM and the BBMRI.de
The German Biobank Platform: enabler of biomedical research
Prof. Marialuisa Lavitrano
Full professor at the University Milano – Bicocca
Director BBMRI.it, Italian Node of BBMRI-ERIC
Director, vice-president EOSC
LBB visit
Guided tour
of the Liquid Biobank Bern
Places are limited. Pre-registration required.
Live cartooning
Jonas Raeber captures the day’s key ideas and moments through live illustration.
Prof. André Uitterlinden
Em. Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam
Genome of Europe
Dr. Katrin Männik
Chief Operating Officer at the Health2030 Genome Center
Genome of Switzerland: Mapping Swiss Genetic Diversity to Enable Personalized Health
Dr. Liis Leitsalu
Genetic counselor and researcher at the Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu
From Biobank to Participant: Lessons from Returning Genomic Results at Scale in Estonia
Prof. Antoine Geissbühler
Dean of the faculty of medicine, University of Geneva
Director of teaching and research, Geneva University Hospitals
Head of the division of eHealth and telemedicine, Geneva University Hospitals
Scaling up the reuse and sharing of health data and samples for better research
Discussion
with Dr. Männik and Dr. Leitsalu
Moderated by Katrin Frei
Poster Session II
Discussion around sample sharing
Prof. Claudio Bassetti
Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern
SERI representative
SERI
LBB visit
Guided tour
of the Liquid Biobank Bern
Places are limited. Pre-registration required.