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A vacancy is currently open for the post of ELIXIR Scientific Administrator, as maternity cover, for a seven month period.

A vacancy is currently open for the post of ELIXIR Scientific Administrator, as maternity cover, for a seven month period.

ELIXIR MoU now has signature of 15 countries and EMBLHinxton, 30 January 2013 – Greece is the latest country to join ELIXIR, the pan-European undertaking to safeguard the results of life science research. The ELIXIR Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is

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The ELIXIR Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) held its first meeting in December 2012. At the meeting, Dr Robert Gentleman of the biotech company Genentech was elected to the Chair, with Professor Gunnar von Heijne of Stockholm University elected Vice Chair

ELIXIR MoU has signature of 14 countries and EMBLPortugal has joined ELIXIR, the major European undertaking to safeguard the results of life science research. Portugal is the 14th nation to sign the ELIXIR Memorandum of Understanding (MoU): a first formal

In an article in the UK's Guardian newspaper, ELIXIR is highlighted as a vital scientific resource for Europe. The article is about potential threats to the proposed EU budget for science and innovation and the importance of protecting projects like

The key post of ELIXIR Founding Director is now currently open for applications, the closing date for which is 1 December 2012. The job advert, job description and link to the online application is available here.

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ELIXIR Member States are currently preparing the first round of ELIXIR Node Applications from their countries.This follows the agreement of a process, developed thoughout the summer of 2012 by a Working Group of the ELIXIR Interim Board, for the submission

ELIXIR MoU now has signature of 13 countries and EMBLHinxton, 3 September 2012 – Czech Republic is the latest country to pledge its commitment to participate in ELIXIR, the emerging research infrastructure for biological information. ELIXIR is a pan-European initiative

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ELIXIR MoU has signature of 12 countries and EMBLHinxton, 10 July 2012 – Italy has pledged to participate in ELIXIR, a major undertaking to safeguard the results of life science research in Europe. With one of Europe’s larger economies now

The BioMedBridges project, which is co-ordinated by ELIXIR, has just launched its website. The website sets out the aims of BioMedBridges, its structure and also includes links to open vacancies. It sets the background by introducing the various ESFRI BMS

The groundbreaking ceremony for the new Technical Hub building took place on Wednesday 13 June. Once constructed, this building will house the staff who will work on the ELIXIR Hub. The funding for the new building, which is being constructed

ELIXIR is one of 13 ESFRI research infrastructures from the biomedical sciences. Together, these research infrastructures have produced a position paper on Horizon 2020 calling for a larger budget for Research Infrastrucutres, and for sustainable investment from the European Commission

The post of ELIXIR Founding Director is now open for applications. The closing date is 1 July 2012. Further information on the post, including links to the on-line application forms, are available here.

A paper on ELIXIR, co-authored by Professor Janet Thornton the ELIXIR Preparatory Phase Coordinator, has been published in the March 2012 edition of the journal 'Trends in Biotechnology'. The paper is entitled 'ELIXIR: A distributed infrastrucutre for European biological data'

The Spring 2012 edition of Informed, ELIXIR's eNewsletter is now available here.This edition includes articles on the process for reviewing and selecting ELIXIR Nodes, includes news on the latest country to join and has an extended feature on Switzerland, which

ELIXIR was well represented at the 2012 ICRI conference in Copenhagen. Professor Janet Thornton, the ELIXIR Preparatory Phase Co-ordinator, gave a presentation about the nature of international research infrastructures on Thursday 22 March. ELIXIR presented a poster in the global