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Announcing the GHGA Lecture Series

We are excited to announce the GHGA Lecture Series- 'Advances in Data-Driven Biomedicine' starting on Monday, November 22. These virtual lectures will be held monthly, on Mondays from 16:00 to 17:00 (CET).

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International standards for data sharing

The second issue of Cell Genomics focused on GA4GH and a landmark paper on secure, interoperable technical standards and policy frameworks, highlighting their relevance to key domains of research and clinical care.

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GHGA takes part in NFDI Science Slam

Under the umbrella of the Berlin Science Week, the FOKUS and NFDI e.V. organized a virtual science slam for NFDI consortia to introduce themselves and their work around research data infrastructure to the general public.

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1st GHGA Annual Meeting

One year after being funded, GHGA celebrated its first anniversary with a bunch of new firsts. The first GHGA Annual Meeting took place in a hybrid format from 26-28th of October.

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GHGA wins poster prize at the E:med 2021 Meeting

We presented GHGA, its goals and plans for the future with a flash talk and poster during the virtual E:med 2021 Meeting.

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GHGA - We Run The Genomes

Things got athletic in July. Ten members of the GHGA team took part in the 10th NCT Run - a charitable run against cancer! The virtual event took place over the span of three days from the 02-04 of July.

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New Precision Oncology Approach for Rare Cancer Patients

A new study demonstrates the feasibility and clinical value of whole-genome/exome sequencing and RNA sequencing in patients suffering from early onset or rare cancer types. 

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CoGDat Development reaches Milestone

The CoGDat is an initiative launched by researchers across Germany. GHGA contributes to the CoGDat effort both on a conceptual level in the data privacy domain as well as through the development of the data portal software DataMeta.

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GHGA at the Lifetime Conference 2.0

GHGA celebrated a First in June: The outreach team manned GHGA's first - virtual - booth at a conference. Following a promotional shout-out during Oliver Stegle’s talk, the breakout room at the LifeTime 2.0 conference saw quite a few visitors on the second day.

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GHGA held a metadata workshop

Hosted by Susanne Motameny and Koray Kirli, invited external guest speakers and specialists from within GHGA presented different aspects around the usage of metadata and ontologies.

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NFDI: New Activities Kicking off within the Newly Established NFDI e.V.

GHGA is funded by the DFG via the German national program for research data infrastructures, the NFDI. Recently, the NFDI office in Karlsruhe has been turned into a registered association - a “eingetragener Verein” or e.V. in German.

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Forum Science & Health: Digital Medicine

The Corona pandemic has shown us just how important sharing access to research as well as clinical data is. Fittingly, the second FORUM Science & Health of BioM discussed digital medicine and whether Germany is a “data treasure” or “data desert”.

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