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Owen Appleton, coordinator of the Swiss FEGA project, was invited to present in the ELIXIR All Hands Meeting in Lyon this week.

After the successful implementation phase of the Swiss FEGA project, which resulted in demonstrating an operational minimum viable product of the FEGA node in staging environment in December 2025, the consortium is glad to receive additional funding from the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN).

Swiss FEGA enters its operational phase and is supported by SPHN with CHF 350'000.00 for 2026.

We expect to receive the first datasets into the Swiss FEGA node in June 2026: stay tuned for more info!

Last week, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics was glad to host the 2025 ELIXIR Federated Human Data (FHD) Community Day, as a joint event with the Human Data and Translational Research (HDTR) project meetings (meeting webpage). This event was held as a hybrid meeting, with the F2F component in Lausanne, Switzerland.

While the Swiss FEGA technical team is still working hard to get the Swiss FEGA node in production in the next months, we are liaising in parallel with potential users of the service, i.e. researchers and clinicians who would like to deposit genomic datasets on Swiss FEGA.

In order to showcase the Swiss FEGA infrastructure and communicate with our potential future data submitters in a consistent manner, we have prepared a concise info sheet which is available using this link. A PDF file is also available for download.

The Swiss FEGA team was glad to welcome the Czech FEGA team in Lausanne last week (23-25 September 2025) for the second workshop as part of the ELIXIR Staff Exchange.