The Registry of Sample Donors for research seeks patients who have had COVID-19
Blood, saliva, tears, hair, skin... are essential to continue delving into diseases and studying effective treatments
The Andalusian Registry of Sample Donors for Biomedical Research, an initiative of the Biobank of the Public Health System of Andalusia, has made a new call to the population to encourage them to donate samples that allow us to continue delving into COVID-19 and the search for effective treatments.
In this sense, they are looking for donors who have overcome the disease and who want to contribute to research in this specific field. The development of clinical studies and research projects allows us to understand more in-depth how SARS-CoV-2 infection is triggered and its consequences in the body, which makes it possible to open effective therapeutic avenues.
In the Andalusian Registry of Sample Donors for Biomedical Research there are more than two thousand registered people whose samples have supported 13 research projects not only in the field of COVID-19. Donations of biological samples, in general, are essential to facilitate the viability of biomedical research projects that help advance scientific knowledge, disease diagnosis, therapeutic efficacy and access to drugs.
How to be a donor?
To become a donor of biological samples for research, simply access the Registry website, www.soydonanteparainvestigacion.es , and register using a digital certificate or by filling out a form that can be delivered to any of the Biobank nodes of the Public Health System of Andalusia, which, being a network structure, has a presence in all the provinces of the autonomous community. You can also access all the information by emailing registrar.donantes.csalud@juntadeandalucia.es or by calling 958 894 669 .
Registration does not necessarily imply participation in a research project since, to do so, the Biobank will contact donors whose profiles are compatible with the scientific study for which the samples are required.
The samples that the Biobank can request from donors registered in the Registry are obtained by non-invasive processes such as hair, nails, feces, body fluids (urine, sweat, saliva, menstrual blood...) or by minimally invasive processes such as blood, biopsy. of skin, etc.
This registry, pioneering at a national and possibly international level, allows citizens to exercise their will to collaborate in person with biomedical research by donating their samples in the format and at the time required, thus becoming protagonists of the development. of the best possible medicine.
The SSPA Biobank has been increasing its activity progressively since the moment of its creation. In recent years, it has received nearly 79,000 donations from patients with oncological, infectious and parasitic diseases, mental, cardiovascular, respiratory, genitourinary diseases, etc. and from healthy patients who are used as controls.
These donations have meant a total of nearly 185,000 different samples that have made it possible to meet more than 1,200 requests from researchers and teachers.