BIOBANKING IN IRELAND

Earlier this month, Insight@UCC hosted a seminar about biobanking in which the European biobanking infrastructure BBMRI-ERIC laid out the case for Ireland becoming a member. The seminar was the starting point for a feature in today’s Irish Times about biobanking. The article explores what biobanking is, the research developments happening as a result of biobanking and director of Insight@NUI Galway Prof Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann spoke about the interface between medicine and data. “Ireland must take a role in biobank research: there is lot of data integration involved and we have the data analytics capacity here that we can bring to biological research,” he says.

The full article is pasted below or you can read it here.