Karine Sargsyan

Karine Sargsyan is an Armenian-Austrian physician, pediatrician, and geneticist. She currently serves as the Director of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Institute Operations and as 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. Her work focuses on biobanking infrastructure, digitalization of medicine, artificial intelligence applications in healthcare, precision and predictive medicine, and medical foresight. 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 and directed it from 2007 to 2019. Sargsyan was Scientific Director of Competence Center BioPersMed (2009-2011). She was acting president of ESBB from September 2022 to May 2023.