Tag: Disease
Allelica Partners with Taiwanese Biobanks to Perform Breast Cancer Polygenic Risk Score Analysis
Allelica, the leading provider of polygenic risk score analysis technology, announced that it has joined forces with the Taiwanese precision medicine provider, SP BioMED, to perform a polygenic risk score (PRS) study for breast cancer. SP BioMED will run...
POPDx: A Machine Learning Model to Predict Diseases of Biobank Participants with Small Datasets
Biobanks – databases with genetic and health information – offer researchers the ability to explore illnesses and study the contributions of genetics and environment to disease trajectory. These investigations have enabled us to draw conclusions about factors ranging from...
Genetic and Health Data Analyses of Finnish Biobank Participants Describe Hundreds of Novel Genetic...
Since initiation in 2017, the FinnGen study has developed into one of the world’s leading biobank-based genomic research projects. Currently FinnGen is completing the construction of a resource that integrates genomic information from 500,000 Finns with more than half...
Qatar Biobank and HMC Launches Tissue Biobank Service in Qatar
Phase one of the Tissue Biobank Service has been launched in Qatar, through collaboration between the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (DLMP) at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and Qatar BioBank (QBB). Tissue biobanking is the process of collecting, processing,...
Saudi Arabia Launches National Biobank to Enhance Public Health System
The National Biobank in Saudi Arabia was inaugurated by the Health Minister and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Public Health Authority (Weqaya) Fahad Al-Jalajel. Al-Jalajel said that “this project is one of the important milestones in raising...
World’s Largest DNA Biobank Reaches Milestone to Store More than 300,000 Samples
BioVU, Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s biobank, has reached another milestone — deep-freeze storage of more than 300,000 biological samples. Launched in 2007, BioVU is the world’s largest DNA biobank based at a single academic institution. The samples, which are linked...
DARWIN EU® Welcomes European Medicines Agency (EMA) Selected First Data Partners to Generate Real-World...
EMA has selected the first set of data partners to collaborate with DARWIN EU®, the Data Analysis and Real-World Interrogation Network. The data available to these partners will be used for studies to generate real-world evidence that will support scientific evaluations and regulatory decision making....
Tampa General Hospital Partners with USF Health to Establish Precision Medicine Biorepository
Tampa General Hospital (TGH) and USF Health is announcing the opening of the TGH | USF Health Precision Medicine Biorepository. The Health Precision Medicine Biorepository is a secure facility that collects, catalogs and stores samples of biological material for medical research.
“The biorepository will drive leading-edge scientific collaboration with the...
Newly Launched African-centric Biobank Offers Researchers Access to African Biospecimens to Diversify Genomics and...
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 African biospecimens across several therapeutic areas for researchers interested in...
Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative (GBMI) Connects Biobanks Together to Enable Better Studies of Genetic...
In 2019, scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, together with colleagues at the University of Michigan and researchers around the world, founded the Global Biobank Meta-analysis Initiative (GBMI) to connect international biobanks in order to enable larger,...
