Sample and Data Usage Committee

The Sample and Data Usage Committee reviews newly submitted project proposals in order to analyze its alignment with the aim of the project which originated the sample or data collection requested, its technical/ ethical viability, and its potential scientific impact. The Sample and Data Usage Committee is composed by the Head of Translational Operations, the Head of Clinical Operations, the Head of the Data Management Center, the General Manager of EF CLIF, and the EF CLIF Director. The Principal Investigator(s) of the project(s) samples and data are requested from also contribute to the evaluation and decision making process of granting access to datasets and samples of interest available in the EF CLIF databases and biobank.

Membership of the Sample and Data Usage Committee

PositionName / AffiliationYear appointment
Ex officio (Head of Translational Operations)Joan Clària, PhD
EF CLIF, Spain
2022
Ex officio (Head of Clinical Operations)Javier Fernández, PhD
EF CLIF, Spain
2022
Ex officio (Head of the Data Management Center)Cristina Sánchez-Garrido
EF CLIF, Spain
2022
Ex officio (General Manager)Anna Bosch, PhD
EF CLIF, Spain
2022
Ex officio (Director)Richard Moreau, MD
EF CLIF, Spain
2022
Co-opted membersAlberto Farias, MD, PhD
Hospital das Clínicas, Brazil
2022
Thierry Gustot, MD, PhD
CUB Hôpital Erasme, Belgium
2022
Rajiv Jalan, MD, PhD
University College London, UK
2022
Gautam Mehta, MD, PhD
University College London, UK
2022
Pierre-Emmanuel Rautou, MD, PhD
Hôpital Beaujon AP-HP, France
2022
Jonel Trebicka, MD, PhD
University Hospital Münster, Germany
2022

Recently approved ancillary studies

This page lists independent investigator-led projects approved by the Samples and Data Usage Committee in the current fiscal year.

Marijke Peetermans, UZ Leuven, Belgium
Subphenotypes of patients with cirrhosis and sepsis

Emmanuel Weiss, Centre de recherche sur l’inflammation UMR 1149, France
Clonal hematoposieses as a predictor of the clinical course of patients with acutely decompensated cirrhosis

Maria Pilar Ballester, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia, Spain
Evaluation of factors defining the natural history and response to therapy of patients hospitalized with an acute episode of hepatic encephalopathy

Rudolf Stauber, Medical University of Graz, Austria
HDL-based prognostic models for prediction of short-term survival in acutely decompensated cirrhosis

Marijke Peetermans, UZ Leuven, Belgium
Subphenotypes of patients with cirrhosis and sepsis

 

Emmanuel Weiss, Centre de recherche sur l’inflammation UMR 1149, France
Clonal hematoposieses as a predictor of the clinical course of patients with acutely decompensated cirrhosis

 

Maria Pilar Ballester, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valencia, Spain
Evaluation of factors defining the natural history and response to therapy of patients hospitalized with an acute episode of hepatic encephalopathy

 

Rudolf Stauber, Medical University of Graz, Austria
HDL-based prognostic models for prediction of short-term survival in acutely decompensated cirrhosis

Jun Li, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China
Validation the effectiveness of the COSSH-ACLF criteria and prognostic score in non-Asian ACLF populations

 

Jonel Trebicka and Wenyi Gu, University Hospital Münster, Germany
Task 6 in MICROB-PREDICT : Address geographic and gender differences, aging and effects of drugs in the progression of liver diseases

 

Maria Papp, University of Debrecen, Poland
Can replacing the whole blood cell count with neutrophil to limphocyte ration improve the predictive performance of the CLIF-C AD score?

Approved projects in previous fiscal years

Download list of projects approved by the Samples and Data Usage Committee to date

 FY 2023