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Partners HealthCare launches COVID-19 biobank with samples from Biogen employees
April 19, 2020 / Modern Healthcare
Partners HealthCare has formed a consortium to build a COVID-19 biobank with blood samples from employees of biotech company Biogen and their families.
The biobank will collect de-identified blood samples and medical data from volunteering Biogen employees who contracted and have recovered from COVID-19, as well as their family members and close contacts.
Partners HealthCare, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital—all in Boston—are coordinating the outreach and sample collection effort and the Broad Institute, the biomedical and genomic research center of MIT and Harvard, will generate data from the samples.
