Membership facilitates access to European biobanks, samples and data, strengthens knowledge-sharing and opens new opportunities for international collaboration and funding, an important milestone for clinical and translational research in Portugal.

AICIB will represent Portugal in the Assembly of Members, while GIMM has been designated the National Node, led by Patrícia Costa Reis and Sérgio Dias, coordinating Portugal’s participation and linking the European network with the National Biobank Network.

Portugal has become a full member of BBMRI-ERIC, Europe’s leading research infrastructure for biobanks and biomolecular resources, through a joint initiative between AICIB and Fundação GIMM.

GIMM researchers, led by Edgar Gomes, uncovered a molecular brake that keeps muscle architecture in check.