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LATVIAN

BIOMEDICAL

RESEARCH AND STUDY CENTRE


RESEARCH AND EDUCATION IN BIOMEDICINE FROM GENES TO HUMAN

BBMRI-ERIC – Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure is European Research Infrastructure, that aims to unite all current and future European biobanks (repositories of biological materials and associated data), to concentrate and coordinate research rescource availability for health researcha and improvement. BBMRI-ERIC Latvian National Node – BBMRI.LV is BBMRI-ERIC infrastructure national coordinator in Latvia, that is developed according to statutes of organization with task to create national biobank network in Latvia and to ensure interaction with BBMRI-ERIC. Ministry of Education and Science has nominated Latvian Biomedical Research and Study centre as national node of BBMRI.LV and prof. Jānis Kloviņš as national node director. It is planned that Latvian national biobank network will be created by the institution that maintain biological material collections for research purposes. The Latvian national network imput in BBMRI-ERIC will be biological samples and associated data with corresponding quality, as well as resources for data obtainment, processing and storage in form of various services.