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GHGA has officially joined the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) National Initiatives Forum (NIF), a global community of genomics initiatives dedicated to advancing human health through collaboration and knowledge exchange.

GHGA and NFDI4Health will intensify their collaboration to develop new opportunities for data analyses that will advance the scientific exploitation of personal health data and eventually improve population health.

The Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) has approved six GHGA Data Hubs as Genome Data Centres to handle sensitive genome data from patients within the Model Project Genome Sequencing.

In a two-day General Assembly, the achievements of the GDI's first year were discussed, and plans for the next year were outlined, with GHGA actively participating as Germany’s GDI node.

GHGA welcomes the recent release of the GDI Starter Kit, a set of software tools to give participating countries the technical capability to access synthetic genomic and phenotypic data across borders. A first step to the production phase within the project.

GHGA is pleased to announce its participation in the newly formed GDI project. Within the ELIXIR-coordinated project, GHGA will enable secure data sharing of human omics data from Germany with the GDI network.

Research institutes from five European countries - including GHGA and the DKFZ for Germany - have committed to improving the way researchers discover and access sensitive human data across national borders to enable more efficient health research.

GHGA joins the Training Community launched by Elixir-Converge and de.NBI, to create teaching materials on FAIR data management and data stewardship.

GHGA reached an important milestone in signing a cooperation agreement to become a national node in the federated European Genome-Phenome Archive. This will make data in GHGA finadable and interoperable beyond German borders.

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.

GHGA organized an interdisciplinary workshop entitled “Towards building a national genome data infrastructure - Synergies and Challenges”. Over 50 participants from various institutions and organizations, ranging from clinical practice to fundamental research, discussed ...