Thursday, 21 May 2026 | 13:45 - 15:15
8A: Unlocking health insights from donated human tissues
- Biobanking without borders: Connecting biodiversity, medicine and innovation
This session examines the ethical, technical and logistical challenges of collecting and managing human tissue donations, both post-mortem and from living donors. Experts will discuss consent, data integration and governance frameworks ensuring responsible use, sharing methodologies and case studies that demonstrate how tissue biobanks advance research and deepen understanding of health and disease.
Speakers included in this session:
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Michaela Th. Mayrhofer – Building Humangenom Austria: The Interplay of Ethical, Data, and Governance Dimensions
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Jörg Hamann – The Netherlands Brain Bank: An open-access platform for brain tissue and integrated health data
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Gregor Gorkiewicz – The “FMT in UC” microbe and host biorepository
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Cecilia Engels – Tissue biobanking: Interface requirements for high-quality support for biomedical research
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Beate Rinner – From pathology to precision oncology: Patient-derived tumour and normal tissue models as a translational interface
This session will be chaired by Assoc.-Prof. Gregor Gorkiewicz, M.D and Dr. Ayat Salman.