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Our proposal is to develop a Human Health Biobank in the North
region of Portugal (NHB). For that we propose to establish a
repository of: Human biological specimenscollections and virtual
collections (digital imaging data) with, in both cases, their associated
clinical and lifestyle data. Within this structure we propose to have
both Populational- and Disease-oriented collections.
The Biobank (RL1) will be established using the research collections
already available in the different institutions namely ICVS-UMinho
(Populational and Disease-oriented collections) and IPATIMUPUPorto
(Disease-oriented collections, in the oncology field). Of
relevance the Population-oriented collection at UMinho is dedicated to
the study of cardiovascular risk and mental health. The objective is to
contribute to the study of and validate new biomarkers of
cardiovascular disease and cognitive performance, by a conjugation
of prospectively collected longitudinal clinical and imagiological data.
Concerning the Disease-oriented collections, the main focus are the
Neurological-/Psychiatric- and Inflammatory-/Infection disease. For
that, the consortium is also composed by 2 additional RL that will
generate new knowledge in the field of Cardiovascular Metabolism
(RL2: FMUP, UPorto and UTAD) and Immunology/Infection (RL3:
ICBAS, UPorto and ICVS, UMinho). These RL will also benefit from
the samples of RL1. Simultaneously, this project aims to accelerate
the Health area throughout the develop of new knowledge in
Regenerative Medicine (RL4: 3Bs-UMinho). In this case, the areas of
aging-related diseases (such as the cardiovascular and
musculoskeletal disease) and cancer disease will be the main focus. The 3 universities that constitute the UNorte (UMinho, UPorto and
UTAD) got together to collaborate on a proposal to uphold health
investigation by sharing methodologies that enhance research in the
North region of the country. The mission is to mobilize the strengths of
the 3 partner institutions, involving their affiliated hospitals, clinical
academic centers to build a collaborative system able to stimulate
translational and clinical research. |