Now available: SPIDIA4P Newsletter 2025/2026 – News about standardisation
Stay informed about the latest developments in standardisation and European research initiatives. In the current SPIDIA4P Newsletter, you can read about recent updates from ISO and CEN standardisation activities as well as other standardization-related activities and EU-funded projects such as MICROBE, in which BBMRI.at plays a key role.
The EU project SPIDIA4P has developed many quality standards for sample pre-analytics together with international partner and the standardization bodies ISO and CEN to which BBMRI.at experts from Med Uni Graz contributed or head a leading role.
Although SPIDIA4P has officially ended, its mission is being actively continued by former consortium members.
In the current newsletter, read about:
Recently published standards:
– ISO 18704:2026: Urine and other body fluids – Isolated cell free DNA (replacing CEN/ TR 17811)
Standards under development:
– ISO/TS 18701: Human specimen – Isolated microbiome DNA (replacing CEN/TS 17626)
– ISO/TS 18703: Venous whole blood – Isolated circulating cell free RNA from plasma (replacing CEN/TS 17742)
Pre-analytical standards undergoing systematic revision:
– ISO-series 20166 FFPE tissue:
- In Revision (isol. DNA, isol. proteins)
- Next Systemativ Review: in situ detection: Q2/2026
– ISO-series 20184 Frozen Tissue:
- In Revision (isol. DNA, isol. proteins)
- Next Systemativ Review: isol. DNA: Q2/2026
– ISO-series 20186 Venous whole blood:
- In Revision (isol. RNA, isol. genomic DNA, sol. circulating cell free DNA from plasma)
Read about BBMRI activities and contributions:
– BBMRI-ERIC Stakeholder and Advisory Services (SAS) Commitment to standardisation and quality management.
– The MICROBE project and a workshop on pre-analytical requirements for plant microbiome samples, demonstrating how expertise from SPIDIA4P is being transferred to new research domains.
– GenomeMET2, an European initiative developing measurement frameworks for minimal residual disease (MRD) diagnostics, with participation of BBMRI.at team members.
– A new animated film about the value of professional biobanks, launched jointly by BBMRI.at, the German Biobank Node (GBN) and the Swiss Biobanking Platform (SBP).
