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GHGA members participated in key conferences, engaging with diverse communities on topics ranging from European genomic data infrastructure and secure processing environments to systems medicine and research data management.

Five NFDI consortia met in Heidelberg to explore synergies in biomedical data management, laying the groundwork for long-term cooperation to improve the management of complex biomedical data.

Genomhäppchen – the science podcast by GHGA – is back for a second season. In short episodes, you’ll get fascinating fun facts about genomics. The new season kicks off with an episode on wine genomics.

At the EOSC Symposium and the Nextflow Summit, GHGA members strengthened collaborations, shared expertise, and engaged with international experts on advancing FAIR principles and scalable bioinformatics solutions.

GHGA defended its proposal for the next funding phase to an international review panel, outlining plans for operating and developing a sustainable omics database and secure processing environment for data sharing.

The Tübingen data hub is now operational, with the first data ingested from the University Hospital of Tuebingen. This step also sees GHGA mentioned as a data repository for the first time in a publication.

We congratulate Professor Eva C. Winkler, a member of our Board of Directors and lead of the GHGA ELSI work stream, on her prestigious new role in the German Ethics Council (Ethikrat)! Read more on the NCT website.

Gathering in Heidelberg for our yearly event, GHGA spent two days reviewing the past year and successes as well as planning ahead. The public symposium allowed us to showcase GHGA and the network it's embedded in, while strengthening our ties to these partners.

Participating in several conferences in September, GHGA members networked closely with various communities ranging from bioinformatic, research data infrastructure, to ethics scholars.

In a recent publication, the FAIR Workflows Working Group of the Workflow Community Initiative offers recommendations to assist researchers and developers in creating workflows that are easy to share, reusable, and adoptable across disciplines.

As data infrastructures grow, traditional informed consent is under pressure. Can “dynamic consent” respect autonomy better than “broad consent”—or is a new approach needed? New work by A. Bruns and E. C. Winkler explores these pressing ethical questions.

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.