Here is your monthly pick of biobanking buzz from the OpenSpecimen team.
We’ll be there at the ISBER Regional Meeting this November. Come and meet us at Booth No. 8 to know more about OpenSpecimen.
Fresh of the Press:
- AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource (ACSR) renewed with the George Washington University through $22 million grant
- The University of Wisconsin-Madison Center will lead the coordinating center for national clinical trials aimed at cancer prevention.
- Clinical research for PET imaging for prostate cancer begins at Osaka University Hospital
- Getting together in the biobank scene: BRoTHER brings biobank know-how to scientists, students, and the public
- Rare Disease Clinical Trials: FDA Awards $15M in Grants
- City of Hope is enrolling patients in the first of its kind Clinical Trial for Brain Tumor patients
- 23andMe and UK biobank database reveals: It’s possible to inherit more DNA from one parent than the other
- University at Buffalo launches “biobank” in downtown research center
Biobank Job Alerts
- Clinical Research Associate I - Biobank - Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, USA
- Senior Director, Biobank - Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., USA
- Clinical Research Coordinator Associate - School of Medicine, Stanford, USA
- Clinical Research Medical Director - Cardiology - Amgen, California, USA
- Senior Manager, Biorepository - Exact Sciences, Madison, USA
- Biobank Technician - University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- Biobank Coordinator - Emerge, Melbourne, Australia
Upcoming Events
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OpenSpecimen Annual Community Meet (OSCON) - 11 -12 Nov: Miami, USA
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Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s 11th International Leaders in Biobanking Congress - 30 Oct - 1 Nov: Miami, USA
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ISBER Regional Conference - 3-5 Nov: Minneapolis, USA
OpenSpecimen News
New clients:
- National Eye Institute (NIH, USA)
- King’s College London for the Precise Network project (Africa)
OpenSpecimen’s Mobile app development initiated
We are excited to announce the initiation of the “OpenSpecimen Mobile App" development. The first version of the app will support patient registration, consents, questionnaires, and specimen collection. To enable offsite data collection in remote sites with no internet, the mobile app will also support the “offline data collection” mode. In future versions, users can look up details of specimens or boxes by scanning the labels. The first version of the mobile app will be released in Dec 2019 and will be enhanced in future releases based on customer feedback.
OSCON19: Australia
We just concluded our “Community Meet” in Cairns Australia. A big thanks to all our adopters for participating and making the meeting successful.
