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In December 2021, we released version 0.4.0 of the GHGA Metadata Model, that contains key metadata information and is a solid foundation for further refinement of the GHGA metadata schema.

We are excited to announce the GHGA Lecture Series- 'Advances in Data-Driven Biomedicine' starting on Monday, November 22. These virtual lectures will be held monthly, on Mondays from 16:00 to 17:00 (CET).

The second issue of Cell Genomics focused on GA4GH and a landmark paper on secure, interoperable technical standards and policy frameworks, highlighting their relevance to key domains of research and clinical care.

Under the umbrella of the Berlin Science Week, the FOKUS and NFDI e.V. organized a virtual science slam for NFDI consortia to introduce themselves and their work around research data infrastructure to the general public.

One year after being funded, GHGA celebrated its first anniversary with a bunch of new firsts. The first GHGA Annual Meeting took place in a hybrid format from 26-28th of October.

We presented GHGA, its goals and plans for the future with a flash talk and poster during the virtual E:med 2021 Meeting.

Things got athletic in July. Ten members of the GHGA team took part in the 10th NCT Run - a charitable run against cancer! The virtual event took place over the span of three days from the 02-04 of July.

A new study demonstrates the feasibility and clinical value of whole-genome/exome sequencing and RNA sequencing in patients suffering from early onset or rare cancer types. 

The CoGDat is an initiative launched by researchers across Germany. GHGA contributes to the CoGDat effort both on a conceptual level in the data privacy domain as well as through the development of the data portal software DataMeta.

GHGA celebrated a First in June: The outreach team manned GHGA's first - virtual - booth at a conference. Following a promotional shout-out during Oliver Stegle’s talk, the breakout room at the LifeTime 2.0 conference saw quite a few visitors on the second day.

Hosted by Susanne Motameny and Koray Kirli, invited external guest speakers and specialists from within GHGA presented different aspects around the usage of metadata and ontologies.

GHGA is funded by the DFG via the German national program for research data infrastructures, the NFDI. Recently, the NFDI office in Karlsruhe has been turned into a registered association - a “eingetragener Verein” or e.V. in German.