{"id":3075,"date":"2020-07-13T15:29:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T19:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/?page_id=3075"},"modified":"2025-10-28T15:45:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:45:52","slug":"translational-research-laboratory-and-biospecimen-repository","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/translational-research-laboratory-and-biospecimen-repository\/","title":{"rendered":"Translational Research Laboratory and Biospecimen Repository"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Translational Research Laboratory<\/strong> supports faculty-led and collaborative studies with academic and industry partners, leveraging human biological material and data from patients treated at Boston Medical Center to advance understanding of hematologic and oncologic diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> Biospecimen repository<\/strong> enables long-term storage of research samples (i.e. blood, saliva, stool, and tissue) in monitored -80\u00b0C and liquid nitrogen freezers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Collaborative Opportunities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>Study support:<\/u> Subject consent\/enrollment, study design, protocol development\/writing, budget estimation<\/p>\n<p><u>Regulatory compliance:<\/u> Help with IRB applications, amendments, annual reports, ongoing study maintenance<\/p>\n<p><u>Specimen management:<\/u> Processing, shipping, coordination with laboratories for analysis<\/p>\n<p><u>Data &amp; publications:<\/u> RedCap database creation\/maintenance, assistance with manuscripts<\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Heaphy, PhD<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:Christopher.Heaphy@bmc.org\"><em>Christopher.Heaphy@bmc.org<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Clinical Research Assistants:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Noundy Mazile<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:Noundy.Mazile@bmc.org\"><em>Noundy.Mazile@bmc.org<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ana\u00efs Mortazavi Zadeh<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:Anais.MortazaviZadeh@bmc.org\"><em>Anais.MortazaviZadeh@bmc.org<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Translational Research Laboratory supports faculty-led and collaborative studies with academic and industry partners, leveraging human biological material and data from patients treated at Boston Medical Center to advance understanding of hematologic and oncologic diseases. The Biospecimen repository enables long-term storage of research samples (i.e. blood, saliva, stool, and tissue) in monitored -80\u00b0C and liquid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6467,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":31,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3075"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5954,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3075\/revisions\/5954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/hematology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}