Europe biobank week 2026

Europe Biobank Week 2026

19 – 22 May 2026 | Prague, Czech Republic

Thursday, 21 May 2026 | 09:00 - 10:30

6D: Patient-centric biobanking: Strategies for engagement and participation

Location:Terrace 2BTrack:Parallel session III
  • Advancing biobanking: Skills, partnerships and sustainable solutions for the future

This session spotlights patients as experts-by-experience driving innovative research and establishing biobanks that address emerging health needs. It explores best practices for making biobank-based research accessible and impactful, empowering diverse communities and fostering meaningful, sustained citizen engagement to advance inclusive and patient-centered health innovation.

Speakers included in this session:

  • Eric Vermeulen - Biobanking for long covid

  • Arthur Haerinck - Stakeholder engagement in European cancer research biobanking: preliminary insights from a scoping review

  • Yue Zhao - Patient-engaged surgical oncology biobanking as a platform for translational precision oncology

  • Alexia Morato -Japson - Inclusive consent strategies across donor life stages in biobanking

This session will be chaired by Dr. Eric Vermeulen and Prof. Elke Smits.