Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a degenerative genetic condition which causes weakness and eventual loss of use in muscles of affected boys because of the absence of the dystrophin protein. September 7 is World Duchenne Awareness Day. On this day World Duchenne Organization raises awareness for Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy around the globe. Every year,…
The ICCBH biennial conference is firmly established on the international meeting calendar and regularly attracts audiences in excess of 600 delegates to hear about and discuss the latest research into paediatric bone disorders. This year, in addition, ICCBH will organise a virtual meeting on bone fragility disorders on the 18-20 November 2020. The Virtual Forum…
The online science exhibition will take place online between 22 and 24 September 2020 and is part of the European Research & Innovation Days. Slowing down global warming, improving our cities, preventing hunger and drought, fighting cancer… It’s all part of the topics that schools, youth, citizens and stakeholders will discover through Science is Wonderful!, a…
The FAIRplus Fellowship Programme is a comprehensive training programme in FAIR data management. The programme will run for a period of approximately 8 months, starting in April 2021 and will guide its fellows through a series of modules combining online learning, ‘training on the job’ and short face-to-face meetings. After completing the programme, the fellows will…
The event organized by the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) will be held on 22 September from 1 pm to 5 pm and it will be online. neXtProt is a platform developed at SIB that helps researchers answer questions relevant to human proteins. It provides a comprehensive set of high quality, fully traceable and standardized…
EMA and the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) have developed a joint strategy for the next five years that is released for a two-month public consultation. The draft strategy details how the European medicines agencies’ network can continue to enable the supply of safe and effective medicines that meet patients’ needs in the face of challenges posed by…
Interested in discovering the landscape of Translational Medicine? Learn from scientists in academia, industry and regulatory agencies and join the 2020 TMex winter school! EATRIS has organized the TMex (Translational Medicine Explained) Winter School that is targeted to PhD students in the second half of their PhD, early postdocs and other young scientists who are involved in…
Following the success of the past Biohackathons (2018, 2019), and building on the Biohackathons organised by National Bioscience Database Center (NBDC) and Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS), ELIXIR is running Biohackathon Europe 2020 virtually this year. The hope is to build on the previous success and encourage more ELIXIR and non-ELIXIR participants to take…
The Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB/ELIXIR-ES) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) organize 19th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB2020), this year the motto is Planetary Health and Biodiversity. The ECCB2020 is the main computational biology and bioinformatics conference this year in Europe and will take place from August 31st until September 8th, 2020. Due to the…
People with rare diseases are doubly vulnerable to COVID-19: on the one hand, many of these pathologies put patients’ health at a higher risk during a SARS-CoV-2 infection, and, on the other hand, confinement and the lack of medical care due to the saturation of certain health services are making it difficult to treat these patients.…