The ELIXIR Hub is delighted to announce that Ilkka Lappalainen will help develop ELIXIR’s strategy for enabling clinical research using human data.
Since establishing the European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) in 2008, Ilkka has helped establish the resource with the scientific community. The EGA, recognised as a gold-standard database for biomedical research data, has been at the centre of two ELIXIR Pilot Actions. One is a collaboration with ELIXIR Finland on AAI, and the other establishes the EGA as a joint venture between EMBL-EBI and ELIXIR Spain.
As a Visitor to the ELIXIR Hub, Ilkka will bring to ELIXIR his considerable expertise in the secure sharing of genomic data, and will help shape our strategy for managing human data. This will involve developing and evaluating future ELIXIR Pilot actions and grant-funded activities, and building collaborations with external partners such as the Biobanking and BIoMolecular Resources Research Infrastructure (BBMRI) and Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) consortia.