University Medical Center Groningen

The University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) is the second largest academic hospital in the Netherlands with a staff of over 12,000 people in patient care, education, training and research, with a focus on ‘Healthy Ageing’. The Genomics Coordination Center is a bioinformatics core facility and a large data stewardship unit between the UMC and University of Groningen. Its mission is to unlock the full potential of next-generation omics, translational and biobank experiments towards personalised medicine and systems genetics for rare and common disease.    

Role in LongITools

UMCG led work package 2 and was responsible for the development of FAIR data infrastructure for multi-centre exposome data stewardship and analysis. They developed the European Human Research Data and Sample Catalogue.