Karine Sargsyan

Karine Sargsyan (Կարինե Սարգսյան) is an Armenian-Austrian medical doctor, geneticist, research manager, biobanker, researcher, foresight scientist (futurist) and educator. She currently serves as the Scientific Director of Oncobiobank at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, California, US, and Managing Director for International Biobanking and Education at Medical University of Graz, Austria, since 2019. She is also an initiator and Vice Scientific Leader, and Lecturer of the first Bologna conform M.Sc. Biobanking since 2016 and University Course Artificial Intelligence in Medicine at the Medical University of Graz starting in 2022. She was one of the pioneers who spoke about quality measures and regulation requirements in the biobanking field and is also a pioneer in biobanking education. She is lecturing at Cedars Sinai, at Msc Biobanking at MedUniGraz, Austria, at MSc in Biobanks & Complex Data Management at Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France, and at the Institute of medical Genetics at Yerevan State Medical University, Armenia. Previously, she was the founding managing director of Biobank Graz (MedUni Graz) and directed it from 2007 to 2019. Sargsyan was Scientific Director of Competence Center BioPersMed (2009-2011). She was acting president of ESBB (European, Middle Eastern & African Society for Biopreservation and Biobanking) from September 2022 to May 2023.

She also serves as an advisor (ACC - ILCEC: Oncology Research Vietnam, Qatar Biobank, German Space Agency, MoHs, DDZ, BBMRI-ERIC, DLR, etc.). Most of her work is focused on scientific education (from kindergarten to adult and retraining possibilities) and specifically in innovative technology.

She was granted "Visiting Professor" and “Honorary Doctor” recognition statues at her alma mater, Yerevan State Medical University, where she graduated as a pediatrician and is still lecturing at the department of medical genetics. She became advisory board member of Center for Molecular Fingerprinting led by Nobel laureate Dr Ferenc Krausz. She is actively working in future sciences, providing content in lectures and TEDx speeches as well at World Economic Forums - Digital Davos Convention. Provided by Wikipedia