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. 2020 Aug;43(4):314-317.
doi: 10.1016/j.bj.2020.05.018. Epub 2020 May 29.

Rapid establishment of a COVID-19 biobank in NHRI by National Biobank Consortium of Taiwan

Shiu-Feng Huang  1 , Yhu-Chering Huang  2 , Feng-Yee Chang  3 , Jung-Chung Lin  3 , Chun-Hsiang Chiu  3 , Chien-Wen Chen  4 , Fu-Der Wang  5 , Yen-Ling Chiu  6 , Shu-Hsing Cheng  7 , Chien-Yu Cheng  8 , Yi-Chun Lin  7 , Cheng-Pin Chen  7 , Chien-Hsien Huang  9 , Po-Yu Liu  10 , Yuan-Ti Lee  11 , Chen-Hsiang Lee  12 , Yao-Shen Chen  13 , Cheng-Len Sy  13 , Yu-Ting Tseng  13 , Cheng-Ting Hsu  14 , Chia-Chun Tseng  15 , Yu-Lin Lee  16 , Chun-Eng Liu  16 , Huey-Kang Sytwu  17
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Rapid establishment of a COVID-19 biobank in NHRI by National Biobank Consortium of Taiwan

Shiu-Feng Huang et al. Biomed J. 2020 Aug.

Abstract

By the request of the Minister of Health and Welfare, NHRI Biobank was assigned to establish a COVID-19 biobank in early Feb, 2020 to collect COVID-19 patients' blood samples for Taiwan researchers and industries in an emergent way. It was set up in less than 3 weeks and quickly opened for application. By August 5, 2020, this COVID-19 biobank has collected 165 blood samples of 110 patients from more than 10 hospitals across north, middle and south part of Taiwan, including both COVID-19 (+) and (-) pneumonia patients. This biobank can provide applicants with biosamples, such as serum, DNA and RNA, and also the clinical and genomic data, so as to accelerate the COVID-19 treatment and prevention research in Taiwan. This COID-19 biobank already received 15 applications. It has become the most important research resource for the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan, including new screening reagents, disease mechanism, the variable human responses and epidemic preventions. Since it is publicly available for both academic and industrial applicants.

Keywords: Biobank; COVID-19; Consortium; Pneumonia.

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Conflicts of interest All authors have no conflicts of interest to declare in this study.

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