The European Biobank Week (EBW) Congress will take place from 13-16 May in Bologna, Italy. The event is organised by the European Biobanking Research Infrastructure (BBMRI-ERIC) and the European, Middle Eastern & African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking (ESBB). It is an ideal place for NAKO researchers to discuss the latest findings and current topics with representatives from the healthcare and scientific sectors.
Experts from the NAKO are represented with the following contributions:
Thursday, 15. Mai 2025
Track One: Navigating the Future of Biobanks: Challenges and Innovations
Session 8A: The Transformative Role of Biobanks in Public Health
The aim of this session is to show how biobanks (e.g. in the field of epidemiology) can be a decisive success factor for accelerating medical progress, e.g. by determining individual biomarkers or creating in-depth phenotype profiles using state-of-the-art technologies for molecular diagnostics and therapy.
16:00-17:00 – 8A: The transformative role of biobanks in public health: Nicole Großkinsky, NAKO, Dr. Sabrina Schmitt, NAKO and Dr. Katharina Hofmann, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg – Biobanking in the German National Cohort (NAKO): A pivotal resource for epidemiological research + The Tumor Tissue Bank of the German National Cohort (NAKO): Pilot of a centralized epidemiologically networked biobanking