Start Date: March 31st, 2020
End Date: June 5th, 2020
Donated hours: 423.5
Samples Counted: 34926
End Date: June 5th, 2020
Donated hours: 423.5
Samples Counted: 34926
This project involves assisting senior personnel from Dr. Eldad Hod's lab to biobank COVID-19 patient specimens (plasma, serum, nasopharyngeal swab, cord blood). Duties involve de-identification of specimens, cryovial labeling, pipetting/aliquoting patient´s fluids, and transporting samples from the hospital central lab to the COVID19 lab. These samples will enable several lines of research at Columbia University.
Team
Manager: Dr. Alvaro Cuesta-Domínguez
Volunteers: Dr. Florence Borot, Dr. Eddy Wang, Dr. Sarah See, Dr. Francesco Cambuli, Simon Guillot, Dr. Alberto Herranz-Bartolomé, Dr. Marta Galán-Díez, Dr. Gwennaelle Monnot, Dr. Meghan Bucher, Kalle Liimatta, Dr. Jaya Pradhan, Jianli Liang, Dr. Claudio Gouveia Martins Roque, Dr. Ilenia Pellicciotta, Dr. Panos Oikonomou, Dr. Chiara Camillo and Dr. Sophie Colombo
Faculty Contact: Dr. Eldad Hod
Project Summary
The COVID19 biobank was an effort by the Department of Pathology with Dr. Eldad Hod as Principal Investigator. The aim was to collect and cryopreserve biological specimens (serum, plasma, blood mononuclear cells, nasopharyngeal swab, cord blood, urine and feces) from COVID19 positive patients to conduct critical research on this novel coronavirus at CUIMC. This resource harbors more than 69000 samples from 7000 unique patients.
The COVID19 biobank CRAC volunteer group kicked off on March 31st with 8 volunteers. In order to face the surge in samples during the peak of the pandemic in NYC, the team gradually expanded to a total of 18 volunteers.
CRAC volunteers helped process 35000 serum, plasma, blood mononuclear cells and cord blood samples. They donated a total of 423.5h of work in 12 weeks, working in 4 hours morning and afternoon shifts.
This project generated several blog posts and articles in the media:
https://cancer.columbia.edu/cracking-down-covid-19
https://columbiacovid.weebly.com/blog/stepping-up-by-stepping-down-highly-skilled-but-humble-biobank-volunteers-process-15500-samples
https://www.nationalpostdoc.org/page/POSTDOCket_1803#section8
https://news.columbia.edu/columbia-laboratory-scientists-aid-covid19-response
https://zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/lab-time-coronavirus-scientists-mobilized#
https://www.pathology.columbia.edu/news/department-thanks-research-volunteers-building-covid-19-biobank
https://columbiacovid.weebly.com/blog/from-patient-bedsides-to-publicationcolumbia-labs-use-biobank-samples-to-study-covid-19
https://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/telediario/biobanco-del-coronavirus-contribucion-espanola/5627053/
https://www.columbiasciencereview.com/covid-blog/interview-highlights-processing-35000-covid-19-patient-samples-in-3-months-with-alvaro-cuesta-dominguez
The CRAC Biobank team would like to acknowledge the behind-the-scenes hard work (transporting samples, de-identifying tubes, barcode-scanning tubes, labelling tubes, preparing racks) put by the non-CRAC Biobank staff so that CRAC volunteers could be adequately pipetting: the Hod lab (Dr. Francesca La Carpia and Sebastian Fernando), the CALM lab (Erin Poptanich, Inna Gerz-Zubkov, Jane Netterwald, Arianna Tausing-Edwards), the Personalized Genomic Medicine (PGM) technicians supervised by Chris Freeman (Emily Clancy, Devon Hemnauth, Laura García and Kelly Zhao), the Cytogenetics Laboratory technicians supervised by Caitlin Walsh (Lara Plim and Justin Huong), the Anatomic Pathology personnel led by Anita Sandeva, Nelsa Matienzo (from the Cardiology Department) and Flavia dei Zotti (Dr. Krystal Hudson lab). Also, a big shout out to the Pathology administrative and data management staff team – Joann Li and Sylvia Parker-Jones– who graciously interfaced with CRAC and made our interactions with the administration smooth and easy.
Manager: Dr. Alvaro Cuesta-Domínguez
Volunteers: Dr. Florence Borot, Dr. Eddy Wang, Dr. Sarah See, Dr. Francesco Cambuli, Simon Guillot, Dr. Alberto Herranz-Bartolomé, Dr. Marta Galán-Díez, Dr. Gwennaelle Monnot, Dr. Meghan Bucher, Kalle Liimatta, Dr. Jaya Pradhan, Jianli Liang, Dr. Claudio Gouveia Martins Roque, Dr. Ilenia Pellicciotta, Dr. Panos Oikonomou, Dr. Chiara Camillo and Dr. Sophie Colombo
Faculty Contact: Dr. Eldad Hod
Project Summary
The COVID19 biobank was an effort by the Department of Pathology with Dr. Eldad Hod as Principal Investigator. The aim was to collect and cryopreserve biological specimens (serum, plasma, blood mononuclear cells, nasopharyngeal swab, cord blood, urine and feces) from COVID19 positive patients to conduct critical research on this novel coronavirus at CUIMC. This resource harbors more than 69000 samples from 7000 unique patients.
The COVID19 biobank CRAC volunteer group kicked off on March 31st with 8 volunteers. In order to face the surge in samples during the peak of the pandemic in NYC, the team gradually expanded to a total of 18 volunteers.
CRAC volunteers helped process 35000 serum, plasma, blood mononuclear cells and cord blood samples. They donated a total of 423.5h of work in 12 weeks, working in 4 hours morning and afternoon shifts.
This project generated several blog posts and articles in the media:
https://cancer.columbia.edu/cracking-down-covid-19
https://columbiacovid.weebly.com/blog/stepping-up-by-stepping-down-highly-skilled-but-humble-biobank-volunteers-process-15500-samples
https://www.nationalpostdoc.org/page/POSTDOCket_1803#section8
https://news.columbia.edu/columbia-laboratory-scientists-aid-covid19-response
https://zuckermaninstitute.columbia.edu/lab-time-coronavirus-scientists-mobilized#
https://www.pathology.columbia.edu/news/department-thanks-research-volunteers-building-covid-19-biobank
https://columbiacovid.weebly.com/blog/from-patient-bedsides-to-publicationcolumbia-labs-use-biobank-samples-to-study-covid-19
https://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/telediario/biobanco-del-coronavirus-contribucion-espanola/5627053/
https://www.columbiasciencereview.com/covid-blog/interview-highlights-processing-35000-covid-19-patient-samples-in-3-months-with-alvaro-cuesta-dominguez
The CRAC Biobank team would like to acknowledge the behind-the-scenes hard work (transporting samples, de-identifying tubes, barcode-scanning tubes, labelling tubes, preparing racks) put by the non-CRAC Biobank staff so that CRAC volunteers could be adequately pipetting: the Hod lab (Dr. Francesca La Carpia and Sebastian Fernando), the CALM lab (Erin Poptanich, Inna Gerz-Zubkov, Jane Netterwald, Arianna Tausing-Edwards), the Personalized Genomic Medicine (PGM) technicians supervised by Chris Freeman (Emily Clancy, Devon Hemnauth, Laura García and Kelly Zhao), the Cytogenetics Laboratory technicians supervised by Caitlin Walsh (Lara Plim and Justin Huong), the Anatomic Pathology personnel led by Anita Sandeva, Nelsa Matienzo (from the Cardiology Department) and Flavia dei Zotti (Dr. Krystal Hudson lab). Also, a big shout out to the Pathology administrative and data management staff team – Joann Li and Sylvia Parker-Jones– who graciously interfaced with CRAC and made our interactions with the administration smooth and easy.