{"id":6165,"date":"2023-10-10T15:51:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T07:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nuhscg\/?page_id=6165"},"modified":"2023-11-23T11:30:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T03:30:31","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nuhscg\/core-facilities\/hospital-biobank\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nuhscg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/03\/shutterstock_146119724-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5773 aligncenter\" width=\"555\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nuhscg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/03\/shutterstock_146119724-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nuhscg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/03\/shutterstock_146119724-1024x668.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nuhscg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/03\/shutterstock_146119724-768x501.jpg 768w, https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nuhscg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/03\/shutterstock_146119724-1536x1002.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nuhscg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/03\/shutterstock_146119724-2048x1336.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>The Hospital Biobank Core aims to create a biobank of samples from patients, enriched for diseases that are rare in population cohorts, with broad consent for linkage to electronic health records, genomic profiling, and data sharing. 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