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Nov 14, 2023

Nov 14, 2023

How Polygenic Risk Scores Shape Your Health Forecast

May 24, 2023

Genetic results may provide valuable insight into how you respond to certain medicines. Learn more about the new results the biobank may return to you.

Feb 22, 2022

The Biobank is beginning to return some genetic results to eligible participants who have signed the appropriate consent form and provided a blood sample that has been processed.

Feb 22, 2022

We completed the second round of our COVID-19 survey. Over 25,000 of you responded – thank you! The information that so many of you shared may help researchers and public health workers understand the impacts of the pandemic and why some groups are more affected than others.

Feb 22, 2022

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus are looking for interested adults 60+ to participate in a research study to look at how inflammation influences memory and thinking.

May 28, 2021

By enrolling in the Biobank, you are helping researchers answer some of today’s most important questions in personalized medicine.

May 28, 2021

As we reported last time, thousands of Biobank participants answered our initial survey about COVID-19 – Thank you again!

May 28, 2021

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from all over the globe came together to develop the COVID-19 Human Genetics Initiative, a massive group effort to help understand what (if any) genetic variants underlie who contracts COVID-19 and if any of those same variants can help predict who develops severe outcomes such as inpatient treatment.

May 29, 2021

We are offering participants who joined the Biobank before October 2019 the opportunity to update their study consent.

Jan 26, 2021

Over the past 6 months, we invited biobank participants to complete a survey about your experience with the COVID-19 coronavirus.

Jan 26, 2021

We are excited to inform you that the CCPM biobank is collaborating with a company called BC Platforms to support research and discovery, and facilitate new drug development. We are joining BC Platforms’ “Global Data Partner Network”

Jan 26, 2021

Like most things in genetics, our work is done in partnership with many other groups across the country, or, indeed, around the world. Often this results in much more powerful analyses than we can do on our own and importantly, we have methods to collaborate securely and preserve privacy.

Jan 26, 2021

The past year has been challenging for all of us. We wish you and your family a safe and healthy 2021.

May 27, 2020

We are offering participants who joined the Biobank before October 2019 to update their study consent.

May 27, 2020

We will soon be inviting Biobank participants to complete a brief survey about the COVID-19 coronavirus.

May 27, 2020

On March 26, 2020, the CCPM Biobank Laboratory launched a clinical diagnostic test for COVID-19. This test, in combination with other validated clinical tests on the Anschutz Medical Campus, is used by healthcare providers to determine what treatment patients should receive and whether isolation and quarantine are required.

May 27, 2020

We are very excited to inform you of a new partnership between the CCPM Biobank and Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC), a subsidiary of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. CCPM and RGC will collaborate to create a large-scale genomics database comprising genetic data on approximately 450,000 samples for discovery research and to support patient care at UCHealth.

Nov 18, 2019

We are seeking 8-10 volunteers from the Biobank to help us improve the information that we provide to our participants at the time of enrollment, and as we begin to return genetic results.

Nov 18, 2019

The Biobank Clinical Operations team works on all operational aspects of patient recruitment, sample collection, patient and provider education, and coordination of activities between UCHealth and the Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine (CCPM) Biobank.