ETSU and VA building COVID-19 Biorepository
East Tennessee State University and the James H. Quillen Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Mountain Home are seeking patients who have recovered from COVID-19 to donate a sample of their …
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Establishment of a Pediatric COVID-19 Biorepository
The global pandemic of COVID-19, caused by the highly infectious and transmissible coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has become a leading cause of death in older adults. While adults can develop life-threatening complications …
Biobanking as a Newsletter – Aug 2020
Here is your monthly curated pick of biobanking news, jobs, and events from across the globe. We hope you will find this enriching and useful. Please do let us know …
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute launches RESPONSE study for Novel SARS-CoV-2
NIH’s ‘National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’ launched the REDS-IV-P program. This program is conducting the RESPONSE study (REDS-IV-P Epidemiology, Surveillance, and Preparedness of the Novel SARS-CoV-2 Epidemic) which aims …
University of Western Australia adopts OpenSpecimen
The University of Western Australia (UWA) adopts OpenSpecimen as its Biobanking LIMS. Implemented as part of The Western Australian Health Translation Network (WAHTN) the WA Biobank will use OpenSpecimen to create, for the first time, a …
Need for sustainable biobanking networks for COVID-19 and other diseases of epidemic potential
Outbreaks of infectious diseases are occurring with increasing frequency and unpredictability. The rapid development and deployment of diagnostics that can accurately and quickly identify pathogens as part of epidemic preparedness …
VCU is building a biobank to fight COVID-19
While VCU Health doctors and nurses focus on saving lives and finding treatment options, other Virginia Commonwealth University researchers behind the scenes are setting the stage for long-term investigations into …
Do Biobanks Need New Strategies?
For precision medicine to realize its potential, research must become ultraefficient. We have the computing power today to quickly discover new disease biomarkers and insights, but we still need enormous …
LSHTM to play key role in new study into long-term health impacts of corona-virus
A major UK research study into the long-term health impacts of COVID-19 on hospitalised patients has been launched. The PHOSP-COVID study has been awarded £8.4million jointly by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) …
Oxford University selects OpenSpecimen as its Biobanking LIMS
#Exciting news! Oxford University selects OpenSpecimen as its Biobanking LIMS. This is all the more exciting since OpenSpecimen was selected via a competitive tender process after evaluating all major biobanking …