Thursday, 21 May 2026 | 09:00 - 10:30
6D: Patient-centric biobanking: Strategies for engagement and participation
- 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:
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Eric Vermeulen - Biobanking for long covid
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Arthur Haerinck - Stakeholder engagement in European cancer research biobanking: preliminary insights from a scoping review
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Yue Zhao - Patient-engaged surgical oncology biobanking as a platform for translational precision oncology
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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.