Tag: Clinical Research
European Commission Funded Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) Project Aims to Enable Cross-Border Access to...
The European Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) is a new €40 million ELIXIR-coordinated project, jointly funded by the European Commission, under the Digital Europe Programme, and participating Member States. The aim of the project is to enable secure access to human genomics...
Mount Sinai Partners with Regeneron Genetics Center to Launch Huge Genetic Sequencing Research Project
Mount Sinai Health System and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have launched a new human genome sequencing research project called the Mount Sinai Million Health Discoveries Program with the Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC), part of the...
New Study Explores the Use of Blockchain Technology to Protect Indigenous Genomic Data
Genomic data from Indigenous communities plays an important role in understanding an array of diseases; however, this data has often been used without informed consent. A team of UC San Diego researchers—including San Diego Supercomputer Center affiliate Timothy Mackey—recently...
GoodCell Launches Personal Biobanking to Store Members’ Stem Cells for Future Personalized Therapies
GoodCell, a life sciences company, launched Personal Biobanking, a proactive, preventative healthcare service that allows members to store their own stem cells for potential future personalized therapy. Thousands of cell and gene therapies are in development to treat diseases and...
Datavant Partners with Nashville Biosciences to Accelerate Drug Discovery and Clinical Research
Nashville Biosciences, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) that leverages BioVU®, the medical center’s de-identified biobank to support biopharma research and development, and Datavant, the leader in securely connecting the world’s health data, today announced a...
Basic Research And Treatment Strategies For Hereditary Aggrecan Deficiency Awarded
Recently, an international team of researchers received the
2019 Human Growth Award at the Pediatric Endocrine Society's Annual Meeting for
their abstract, entitled "Clinical Characterization and Trial of Growth
Hormone in Patients with Aggrecan Deficiency: 6 Month Data," and presented
this at the...
Biospecimen Quality in Clinical Research
Abstract
Biospecimens form an integral part of many clinical research studies. The production of valid clinical data sets depends largely upon the quality of biospecimens utilized in the study. Annotations of biospecimens help unveil information related to disease prognosis, diagnosis,...
