# 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 statutes 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 a voting 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.
Building a better future on Planet Earth has become one of her professional and personal priorities in the last few years, so she got engaged in the project “Future of the World in 2050”. Together with coauthors/coeditors and over 100 subject matter expert contributors of several field leaders, they reflected on the future possibilities, availabilities, and influences of scientific and technological development and social and human development in the age of artificial intelligence. She addressed the future of these influences with colleagues in several lectures and in TEDx public discourses andat the UN General Assembly Science Summit 2024 on Digitalization of healthcare: from technology to insights, at COP16, and at the WEFs Davos Worldwide (Digital) convention. The Book Future Intelligence: Our World in 2050, written with Co-Editors Dr. Tamás Landesz and Dr. Sangeeth Varghese and Dr. Karine Sargsyan as corresponding editor, is open access and became a pre-salles and actual bestseller of Springer Nature. This book brings together diverse domain experts who, in a crowdsourced manner, analyze these global developments through the lens of their experiences. It aims to provide an encompassing perspective and a compelling case for what we should anticipate as we approach the year 2050. The project(s) cover(s) various topics, such as the future of leadership, addressing global challenges, and designing a sustainable way of life in harmony with nature. Additionally, it delves into disruptive entrepreneurship, the significance of geographical borders, game-changing future innovations, education and networked learning, interplanetary travel, communication, and, specifically, health and medicine. Moreover, the book emphasizes the importance of empathy, mindfulness, presence, and sharing as pivotal factors in shaping future decision-making by 2050. While of general interest to those curious about the world's future, this book holds value for planners, policymakers, strategists, and entrepreneurs.

## Selected publications

* Book: Digitalization of Medicine in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Paradigm Changes in Healthcare and Biomedical Research, Editors: Zisis Kozlakidis, Armen Muradyan, Karine Sargsyan, Springer Cham, Medicine (R0), 2024 , ISBN 978-3-031-62331-8
* Book: Future Intelligence: The World in 2050 - Enabling Governments, Innovators, and Businesses to Create a Better Future, Editors: Tamás Landesz, Sangeeth Varghese, Karine Sargsyan, Springer Nature, Business 2023 ISBN 978-3-031-36384-9
* Overview of Cancer Control in Armenia and Policy Implications, Bedirian K, Aghabekyan T, Mesrobian A, Shekherdimian Sh, Zohrabyan D, Safaryan L, Sargsyan L, Avagyan A, Harutyunyan L, Voskanyan A, Tadevosyan A, Melik-Nubaryan D, Khachatryan P, Saghatelyan T, Kostanyan M, Vardevanyan H, Hovhannisyan M, Sarkisian T, Sargsyan K, Babikyan D, Tananyan A, Danielyan S, Muradyan A, Tamamyan G, Bardakhchyan S; 2022, Frontiers in Oncology (11) 782581
* Book: Biobanks in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Relevance, Setup and Management, 1st ed. 2022, Editors: Sargsyan K, Huppertz B, Gramatiuk S, Springer Nature ISBN 978-3-030-87637-1
* Susceptibility of different mouse wild-type strains to develop diet-induced NAFLD/AFLD-associated liver disease, VHI Fengler, T Macheiner, SM Kessler, B Czepukojc, K Gemperlein, PloS one 11 (5), e0155163, 2016
* Magnetomitotransfer: An efficient way for direct mitochondria transfer into cultured human cells, T Macheiner, VHI Fengler, M Agreiter, T Eisenberg, F Madeo, D Kolb, Scientific Reports 6 (1), 35571, 2016
* Respiratory chain complex I is a mitochondrial tumor suppressor of oncocytic tumors, FA Zimmermann, JA Mayr, R Feichtinger, D Neureiter, R Lechner, Frontiers in Bioscience-Elite 3 (1), 315–325, 2011
* Adiponectin serum concentrations in men with coronary artery disease: the LUdwigshafen RIsk and Cardiovascular Health (LURIC) study, S Pilz, W Maerz, G Weihrauch, K Sargsyan, G Almer, M Nauck, BO Boehm, Clinica chimica acta 364 (1-2), 251–255, 2006