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To enable personalised medicine, we need to be able to share and process sensitive human data such as individual human genomes and link this to health and clinical data. Establishing an infrastructure capable of sharing this data in a secure way across borders is a high priority topic in Europe. The Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) project, coordinated by ELIXIR, will deploy such an operational infrastructure in Europe. VIB/ELIXIR Belgium and Sciensano will collaborate to establish this infrastructure in Belgium. The Belgian Genome Biobank project is focussing on the generation of human genome sequences for a healthy reference population, in which ELIXIR Belgium is co-leading the infrastructure component. The combined projects will be driving the concrete deployment to realise an adequate infrastructure to handle sensitive data in a collaborative, privacy-conscious manner across stakeholders in research and health in Belgium.
Within the ELIXIR Belgium team, you will coordinate the Node s activities on human data across Belgian stakeholders and ensure the alignment with the European developments. You will work closely with research institutions, the public health institute (Sciensano) and university hospitals, as well as with colleagues from the other ELIXIR Nodes throughout Europe, with the aim to establish a fit-for-purpose infrastructure supporting health research. In this dynamic role you will have the chance to actively contribute to the development of a complete ecosystem to share sensitive human data.
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As our Project Manager Human Genomics Data, you will:
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About the institute and research infrastructure
The ELIXIR consortium is a European research infrastructure that unites life-science research groups. It coordinates, integrates and sustains bioinformatics resources from the different member states. The Belgian ELIXIR Node is hosted at VIB (Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie). The research infrastructure provides platforms and guidance for research data management and reproducible data analysis, and offers domain specific services for Plant & Biodiversity, Human health and COVID-19 research. ELIXIR Belgium is also strongly involved in the infrastructure for human data sharing and provides data related training and workshops.
VIB is an entrepreneurial non-profit research institute, with a clear focus on ground-breaking strategic basic research in life sciences and operates in close partnership with the five universities in Flanders Ghent University, KU Leuven, University of Antwerp, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Hasselt University. The ELIXIR Belgium core team is located at the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology), a world-leading plant science institute.
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