CARMA-PREG, Canada

Registration Status: Completed

Objective: Biospecimens collected from pregnant women living with HIV and controls (whole blood, dried blood spot, plasma, serum, placenta tissue, cheek swab, vaginal swab) and their infant (blood, umbilical cord tissue, umbilical cord blood cheek swab, infant ear lobe swab). The project studies the effect of HIV and antiretroviral on drugs on the health of mothers and infants, on the risk of preterm birth and pregnancy complications, in the context of other determinants of health.

Registered Biobank Name	CARMA-PREG
Biobank Leader	Helene Cote
Country	Canada
Email for biobank inquiries	helene.cote@ubc.ca
Principal Investigator	Helene Cote (UBC), Deborah Money (UBC), Isabelle Boucoiran (Hopital Sainte-Justine, Montreal)
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User Type Mono: A biobank that supports a specific research project, may have few staff members, a small-scale accrual scope with little to no initial intention of releasing or distributing biospecimens to secondary parties Oligo: A biobank that supports several research groups or clinical trials, may or may not be designed to release biospecimens outside their collaborative group Poly: A biobank that has generally a larger accrual scope, resources, and multiple users outside the biobank proper

Biospecimen Collected:

Cohort Highlights

100 cases Next Generation Sequencing assay to detect all classes of genetic variant in Lung Cancer using a single Diagnostic test.
200 cases Colorectal TMA for QC purposes in support of study of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes in ovarian cancer tissues.
Build 300 cases breast cancer TMA containing primary tumour and matched metastatic LN for various subtypes (luminal, HER2, Triple negative). Start with Triple negatives.
125 cases Breast tumour and metastatic lymph nodes in breast cancer cases with outcomes of metastasis to lung or bone.
100 cases of rare tumours - fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma. FFPE, frozen, BC.
200 cases of FFPE tissue sections from breast, lung adenocarcinoma, and lung squamous cell carcinoma with matching normal tissue (only pathology data requested).