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WEBSpecimen collections from prestigious longitudinal cohort research studies enriched by up to 40 years of health-related behavioral and medical histories…. A unique and invaluable research resource offering: Collection, handling, and distribution of biospecimens for epidemiologic chronic disease research. State-of-the-science biobanking best

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BWH/ Harvard Cohorts Biorepository » Cohorts

WEBThe Nurses’ Health Studies are among the largest and longest-running investigations of factors that influence women’s health. The original cohort of the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) was established in 1976 with the enrollment of 121,000 female nurses ages 30-55. The Nurses’ Health Study II enrolled 116,430 nurses age 25-42 in 1989.

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BWH/ Harvard Cohorts Biorepository » Over 8000

WEBThe BWH/Harvard Cohorts Biorespository has partners with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on a $4.9 million microbiome project funded by the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC).The award is part of $18 million in capital infrastructure grants given by the MLSC to research institutions in Boston.

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BWH/ Harvard Cohorts Biorepository » news

WEBThe BWH/Harvard Cohorts Biorespository has partners with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on a $4.9 million microbiome project funded by the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC).

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BWH/ Harvard Cohorts Biorepository » Leadership

WEBAdvisory Board. The BWH/Harvard Cohorts Biorepository operates with oversight and expert guidance from an active and dedicated advisory board that includes faculty from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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BWH/ Harvard Cohorts Biorepository » Specimens

WEBSpecimens. The BWH/Harvard Cohorts Biorepository houses more than 3.2 million biological specimens from more than 200,000 participants in several prestigious cohort studies: Sample types include plasma, white blood cells, red blood cells, whole blood, urine, DNA, toenails, hair, stool, saliva, archival tumor tissue, and mammography images.

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BWH/ Harvard Cohorts Biorepository » Administration

WEBJanine Neville-Golden, Senior Research Laboratory and Biobank Manager. With more than 30 years of experience in biomedical research in the fields of cancer biology, normal wound repair, molecular biology, and neurobiology at Harvard Medical School’s Center for Blood Research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard School of Public Health and HMS’ …

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Biorepository cohort featured in JAMA

WEBThe Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) was featured in a recent issue of JAMA.The Medical News & Perspectives piece on NHS covered its beginnings and its public health legacy. NHS is one of several prestigious cohort studies whose specimens are housed at the BWH/Harvard Cohorts Biorespository. The Biorepository houses more than 3.2 million biological …

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BWH/ Harvard Cohorts Biorepository » Institutions

WEBThe Channing Division of Network Medicine originated in 1958 as the Channing Laboratory, which was formed at Boston City Hospital to support primary research on infectious disease and chronic disease epidemiology. In 1975, the Channing Lab became a research division in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. It became the

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BWH/ Harvard Cohorts Biorepository » Key publications

WEB2016. Townsend MK1, Bao Y2, Poole EM2, Bertrand KA3, Kraft P4, Wolpin BM5, Clish CB6, Tworoger SS7. Impact of Pre-analytic Blood Sample Collection Factors on Metabolomics.

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BWH/ Harvard Cohorts Biorepository » Hormone levels may help …

WEBEvaluating key hormone levels may help clinicians more accurately predict a woman’s risk for breast cancer, research suggests. Using samples from the Nurses’ Health Study, scientists analyzed breast cancer risk among 473 postmenopausal women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer and 770 women without breast cancer.

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BWH/ Harvard Cohorts Biorepository » AML research collaboration …

WEBWe are pleased to share results of an exciting research enterprise between the BWH/Harvard Cohorts Biorepository’s epidemiologists and population scientists and basic scientists at Washington University: Clonal haematopoiesis harbouring AML-associated mutations is ubiquitous in healthy adults, the first publication from our collaboration. We …

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BWH/ Harvard Cohorts Biorepository » Researchers identify an …

WEBBlood samples from the BWH/Harvard Cohorts Biorepository have helped researchers identify an early sign of pancreatic cancer. Researchers analyzed samples collected years earlier from 1,500 people participating in cohort health studies, looking for more than 100 different metabolites.

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BWH/ Harvard Cohorts Biorepository » hcc_admin

WEBThe BWH/Harvard Cohorts Biorespository has partners with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on a $4.9 million microbiome project funded by the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC).

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

WEBPlace the rack of blood tubes in wet ice to keep the samples cold. Keep the tubes upright; tilting will disturb the separated layers. The centrifugation process will separate out the blood into plasma, WBC (buffy coat) and RBC components as shown below. The aliquots will be created in that order top to bottom.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

WEBArm – Put a check mark under the appropriate arm for the kit being received. Paperwork - Record receipt of the paperwork by putting a check mark on the paper log. If not received, write “No” on the log. Next, record the number of samples received. Record how many Whole Blood and Urine samples are received.

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Governance Plan BWH/Harvard Cohorts Biorepository

WEBBWH/Harvard Cohorts Biorepository Governance Plan, 2014 Governance Plan BWH/Harvard Cohorts Biorepository A. Name of the Custodian: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard School of Public Health (Directors: Dr. Shelley

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BWH/ Harvard Cohorts Biorepository » Genetic makeup influences

WEBAnalysis of samples from 9,623 women in the Nurses’ Health Study, 6,379 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, and 21,426 women in the Women’s Genome Health Study indicates that a higher genetic risk of obesity may increase the adverse effects of fried foods on body weight, and that high intakes of fried food may also exacerbate the …

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