The invitational AMED-GA4GH GEM Japan workshop 2020 Sendai will be held in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, from February 27th through 29th, 2020.

AMED Program for an Integrated Database of Clinical and Genomic Information organize this workshop, mainly focusing on data sharing for promotion of genome based medicine with GA4GH (Global Alliance for Genomics & Health) supported by the Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University. Our Driver Projects GEM Japan will commit on piloting and developing standards and policy frameworks with the GA4GH Work Streams; Genomic Knowledge Standards, Discovery, Data Use & Researcher Identities, and Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capturing, Discovery.

To work on these topics, we will host the workshop in Sendai, where the Tohoku Medical Megabank project is on going, which is the one of the largest biobank storing genome/omics , health and clinical data for 150,000 participants of prospective genome cohort.