{"id":27,"date":"2016-08-01T14:29:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T14:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waikarlab.bwh.harvard.edu\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2020-07-31T12:59:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T16:59:22","slug":"kidney-disease-biobank","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/waikarlab\/kidney-disease-biobank\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidney Disease BioBank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Waikar has amassed a large biobank of biological samples from a wide-range of patients with acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, and end stage renal disease.<\/p>\n<p>Our Kidney Disease BioBank contains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Urine samples<\/li>\n<li>Blood samples (i.e., serum, plasma, DNA, RNA)<\/li>\n<li>Tissue samples<\/li>\n<li>Linked clinical and laboratory data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To date, the Kidney Disease BioBank contains over 200,000 samples from over 5,000 individual patients.\u00a0Dr. Waikar and his collaborators utilize these samples to conduct hypothesis-driven biomarker research to better understand disease pathogenesis and develop new diagnostic tests for kidney disease.<\/p>\n<p>For more information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you would like to discuss possible collaborations: Contact <a href=\"swaikar@bu.edu\">Dr. Waikar<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Waikar has amassed a large biobank of biological samples from a wide-range of patients with acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, and end stage renal disease. Our Kidney Disease BioBank contains: Urine samples Blood samples (i.e., serum, plasma, DNA, RNA) Tissue samples Linked clinical and laboratory data To date, the Kidney Disease BioBank contains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17111,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/waikarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/waikarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/waikarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/waikarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/waikarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/waikarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/waikarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/waikarlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}