Biobanking as a Newsletter – Sept 2022
Here is your monthly curated pick of biobanking news, jobs, and events from across the globe. We hope you will find this enriching and valuable. Please do let us know …
Gunjan Pancal
Biobanks Are On The Cusp Of Translating Big Data Into New Medicine
The rise of biobanks worldwide promised lots of cheap and plentiful human DNA for scientists to study. In the spring of 2020, as COVID-19 ricocheted around the world, geneticists everywhere …
University of Cincinnati to Learn Causes of Cardiac Arrest Through Biorepository
Each year in the U.S., more than 356,000 sudden cardiac arrests occur. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati hope to learn more about the causes of cardiac arrest through the …
UCLA ATLAS Precision Health Biobank to Advance Personalized and Precision Medicine
Researchers analyzing genomic data from the UCLA ATLAS Precision Health Biobank have found a highly diverse patient population within the repository, and they plan to leverage the data to support …
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Establish State-of-the-art Automated Biobanking System
Vanderbilt University Medical Center has opened a state-of-the-art automated biobanking system that can store as many as 10 million biospecimens, including blood and body fluids, tissue, and genetic and protein …
Armed Forces Establishes Egypt’s First-ever Automated Biobank
The Egyptian Armed Forces announced the establishment of the country’s first-ever automated biobank at the Armed Forces Centre for Research and Regenerative Medicine (ECRRM), also the first of its kind …
Study Aims to Improve Health for All of Us
The University of Mississippi Medical Center is an enrollment site of the All of Us Research Program, a National Institutes of Health initiative to collect health information from 1 million …
Biobank Personnel — The Key to its Success
Resources from biobanks and biorepositories, such as human samples, are of increasing interest to specialists in various fields. However, whilst biobanks provide a crucial service, their efficient and effective management …
Biorepository and Bioinformatics are critical for Biodiversity Conservation in Bhutan
Biorepositories and biodiversity information systems in Bhutan were instituted since 1990s, and have contributed towards biodiversity conservation and sustainable utilization efforts in the country, including the recent citizen-science initiatives. The …
Westmead Hospital Received Grant to Establish Blood Sample Collection from Hypercholesterolaemia Patients
Dr. Helen Williams, Scientific Officer in Westmead Hospital in has received a research grant to establish a collection of blood samples from 500 people with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH). Familial hypercholesterolaemia …