Useful contacts
When contacting experts, biobanks and registers mentioned below please provide background information and refer to EIT Health Scandinavia.
Core facilities
The University of Tartu, Institute of Genomics Core Facility
Core Facility of University of Copenhagen
Scandinavian Partners with expertise on big data analysis
- University of Uppsala, EIT Health contact persons: Anna Franzén, anna.franzen@uuinnovation.uu.se
- Karolinska Institutet, EIT Health contact persons: Jan-Olov Höög, jan-olov.hoog@ki.se, Inger Lundqvist, lundqvist@ki.se
- KTH, EIT Health contact person: Dmitry Grishenkov
- RISE, EIT Health contact person: Sylvie Bove
- The University of Tartu, EIT Health contact person: Kadi Erik, Tõnu Esko, tonu.esko@ut.ee
- University of Copenhagen, EIT Health contact person: Trine Winterø , Camilla Krogh Christensen, krogh@sund.ku.dk
- DTU Technical University of Denmark, EIT Health contact persons: Stine Kruse, Morten Mikkel Mejlhede Rolsted, momro@adm.dtu.dk
Health economists
| Estonia | |
| Raul-Allan Kiivet, raul.kiivet@ut.ee | Tartu University |
| Denmark | |
| Jakob Kjellberg, jakj@vive.dk
Karsten Vrangbæk, kavr@sund.ku.dk Kasper Edwards, kaed@dtu.dk Sam Kondo Steffensen, sakost@dtu.dk |
The Danish Center for Social Science Research
University of Copenhagen DTU’s department of Management Engineering DTU Management’s Business department |
| Sweden | |
| Inna Feldman, inna.feldman@pubcare.uu.se
Peter Lindgren, Peter.Lindgren@ki.se Niklas Zethraeus, niklas.zethraeus@ki.se Lars-Åke Levin, lars-ake.levin@liu.se Lars Hagberg, lars.hagberg@regionorebru.se Ulf Gerdtham, ulf.gerdtham@med.lu.se> Filipa Sampaio, Filipa.sampaio@pubcare.uu.se
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Uppsala University, Region Uppsala Karolinska Institutet Karolinska Institutet The Swedish institute for Health Economics |
National entry points for biobanks and registers
| Country | Registers | Biobanks |
| Estonia | The Estonia Ministry of Social Affairs (https://www.sm.ee/en) and National Institute for Health Development (https://tai.ee/en/r-and-d/registers)
The Estonian Health Insurance Fund (https://www.haigekassa.ee/en) |
Estonian National Biobank, University of Tartu (www.biobank.ee). Have been linked with 9 health registers. Can be linked with 1500 national registers. |
| Denmark | Danish Clinical Registries (RKKP) https://www.rkkp.dk/in-english/ | The Danish Biobank
(www.danishnationalbiobank.com/register.html), incl. 12 biobanks. Can be linked with 3 national registers. |
| Sweden | https://www.registerforskning.se/en/, | Biobank Sweden (www.biobanksverige.se), includes 250 sample collections. Can be linked with many mandatory registers (https://www.registerforskning.se/en_us/) |
Contact persons for EIT Health connected biobanks
| Erik Sørensen, erik.soerensen@regionh.dk | Copenhagen Hospital Biobank, Danish Blood Donor Study |
| Estrid Høgdall, Estrid.hoegdall@regionh.dk | Danish Cancer Biobank |
| Lasse Boding, labo@ssi.dk | Danish National Biobank |
| Inger Kristine Meder, dnbc-research@ssi.dk | Danish National Birth Cohort |
| Estrid Høgdall, Estrid.hoegdall@regionh.dk | Danish Rheuma Biobank |
| Jonas Mengel-From, jmengel-from@health.sdu.dk | The Danish Twin register |
| Jens Steen Nielsen, jsn@rsyd.dk | Danish Centre for Strategic Research in Type 2 Diabetes |
| Janni Brødbæk, Janni.Broedbaek@rsyd.dk | OPEN Biobank |
| Palle Lyngsie Pedersen, biobank@regionsjaelland.dk | Region Zealand Biobank |
| biobank@ki.se | Karolinska Institute biobank |
| Marie Sverud, rbcsyd@skane.se | Region Skåne Biobank |
| biobankstockholm.lsf@sll.se, Lena Brynne, lena.brynne@sll.se | Stockholm medical biobank |
| info@uppsalabiobank.uu.se | Uppsala Biobank |
| Andres Metspalu, andres.metspalu@ut.ee | The Estonian Biobank |