Tag: NIH
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Launches High-Tech Automated Biobank to Safeguard Critical Biospecimens
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,...
ATCC Awarded New Contract from the National Cancer Institute to Process Biomaterials for Cancer...
ATCC, the world’s premier biological materials management and standards organization announced that it has been selected as an awardee for the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Division...
VA’s MVP Mega-Biobank Collaborates with NIH to Advance Genetic Discoveries for Veterans
Since 2011, more than 875,000 Veterans have donated their DNA to the VA Million Veteran Program (MVP). In the program, VA researchers are sequencing...
NIH Launches Program to Offer Molecular Characterization of Pediatric Cancer Data
The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched the Molecular Characterization Initiative for pediatric tumors and this program offers tumor molecular...
NIH’s All of Us Program Releases Dataset of Almost 100,000 Whole Genome Sequences
Nearly 100,000 highly diverse whole genome sequences are now available through the National Institutes of Health's All of Us Research Program. About 50% of the...
ATCC Awarded a $1.9 million Contract from NIAID to Develop Well-characterized Challenge Materials
With the advancement of modern biomedical research, new discoveries and potential treatments are being developed in many scientific fields, including genetics, molecular biology, and...
NIH Launches COVID-19 Neuro Databank/Biobank to Track Neurological Symptoms Associated with COVID-19
A new database will collect information from clinicians about COVID-19-related neurological symptoms, complications, and outcomes as well as COVID-19 effects on pre-existing neurological conditions....
The UK ME/CFS Biobank – Building A Network
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) is a chronic, fluctuating, neurological condition that causes symptoms affecting many body systems, more commonly the nervous and immune systems. ME...

















