Eldad Hod, Kevin Roth, Krzysztof Kiryluk, Wendy Chung: Building Biorepositories from Scratch in the Midst of a Crisis
The CALM (Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine) has been instrumental in organizing residual patient samples for research purposes. They are collecting EDTA whole blood, serum, urine, NP swabs (live virus), stool/rectal (live virus) These samples are useful for downstream applications: DNA, RNA (viral vs human), antibodies, flow cytometry, transcriptomics, metabolomics and proteomics The COVID Biobank is part of a larger effort (by many entities across campus) to build a common Columbia repository (Columbia University Biobank) that would have specimens as well as data (such as genomic). The Biobank will help in understanding the degree to which host genetics contribute to variability and disease complications, and may explain severe familial aggregation.
