There are six national centers (6NCs) for advanced and specialized medicine in Japan that conduct basic and clinical research on major diseases that substantially impact national health. Disease-specific bioresources and …
Qatar Biobank, a member of Qatar Foundation (QF), has made significant progress over the past 10 years, with an increase in a number of participants and studies. The flagship Cohort …
MyAfroDNA is a limited liability company that provides a solution to the significant lack of African representation in translational and genomics research. The African-centric biobank offers access to ethically sourced …
The Million Veteran Program (MVP), which is run by Veterans Affairs and holds data on over 150,000 Black Americans. Established in 2011, the MVP has enrolled 903,000 contributors and is …
Tampa General Hospital and the University of South Florida (USF) Health Morsani College of Medicine are partnering to establish a medical research biorepository. The Health Precision Medicine Biorepository intends to …
Prof. Juergen Scheele, Chief Medical Officer, Innoplexus highlights that healthcare professionals must come together to ensure that licensing of biospecimens for cancer research follows the highest ethical standards and is …
Van Andel Institute’s Biorepository is the recipient of a five-year, $7.9 million contract from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, to continue serving as …
The Universities of York and Newcastle have joined forces with two leading cancer charities to create a new biobank which will provide vital resources for researchers working to prevent, diagnose …
Great news from OpenSpecimen! We proudly announce that on 13th Sept 2022, the University Medical Center Utrecht (Netherlands) central biobank successfully migrated from its old BIMS to OpenSpecimen. UMC Utrecht …
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