Chen Liu, MD, Ph.D., Chair of Yale Pathology, is leading an effort at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) to establish an institutional biorepository for the coordinated collection of tissue, plasma, serum, and genetic samples, and clinical data using common processes and information systems.
Liu is leading a task force that surveyed leading institutions with centrally coordinated institutional biorepositories before developing a plan to create a College of American Pathologists (CAP)-accredited biorepository that would facilitate rigorous phenotyping of samples, and coordination of proteomic, metabolomic, and genomic analyses to enhance the identification of therapeutic targets and diagnostics at Yale.
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