ABU DHABI: The division of well being – Abu Dhabi (DoH) and M42 have collaborated to launch the Abu Dhabi Biobank, with its first providing being the area’s largest hybrid twine blood financial institution.
Reinforcing the Emirate’s place as a number one vacation spot for all times sciences, the initiative goals to shorten ready occasions for remedy, improve therapeutic entry for sufferers, enhance survival charges and scale back the financial burden on governments.
Introduced on the inaugural Abu Dhabi International Healthcare Week 2024 the place M42 is collaborating because the Basis Accomplice, the Abu Dhabi Biobank is a part of the emirate’s imaginative and prescient of constructing a novel world biobanking hub delivering invaluable knowledge belongings for maximal affect on individuals’s well being.
It will likely be a key pillar of well being transformation and goals to ship excellence by creating a various, foundational, bio-asset that helps therapeutic remedies, life science analysis for medical innovation, novel drug discovery targets and illness prevention to ship the best stage of personalised, exact, and preventative healthcare for all.
The service shall be launched throughout 4 main healthcare entities dedicated to maternal and youngster well being throughout Abu Dhabi. Potential dad and mom can avail themselves of this service at Danat Al Emarat Hospital for Girls & Youngsters, a part of the M42 group, Corniche Hospital, Kanad Hospital, and hospitals as a part of NMC Healthcare.
Noura Khamis Al Ghaithi, Undersecretary of DoH, stated that the wealth of organic and medical knowledge amassed by the Biobank will catalyse scientific breakthroughs, expediting drug discovery, thus contributing to the Emirate’s capability to search out options for native and world well being challenges. It is going to considerably affect medical care and affected person outcomes, emphasising cord-derived stem cell therapies and enabling native stem cell remedy supply.
She added, “The Abu Dhabi Biobank’s capability to hyperlink twine blood, tissue, stem cells, and a variety of regular and pathological human specimens with established giant genomic, proteomics and medical information units the scene for transformative and cutting-edge initiatives.”
An necessary development for the nation’s well being ecosystem, the twine blood financial institution of Abu Dhabi Biobank will allow higher care outcomes, construct the nation’s self-sufficiency in assembly the pressing want for twine blood stem cells, and additional improve regional capabilities in analysis and innovation.
Stem cells work like a ‘bio restore equipment’, serving to to heal, restore and replenish different cells that can be utilized to deal with sure haematological and immune system problems, like leukaemia, lymphoma and bone marrow ailments requiring a transplant.
With a capability to retailer 100,000 twine blood samples and 5 million pan-human samples, the Biobank will create a wealthy, numerous dataset that may present prepared and better-matched hemopoietic stem cells globally. It goals to boost group well-being by preventive measures and entry to superior, high-quality well being providers.
Abu Dhabi Biobank’s twine blood financial institution facility, located in M42’s Omics Centre of Excellence, is provided with state-of-the-art automated know-how and the very best large-capacity biobanking infrastructure. This infrastructure will protect samples safely and securely, thereby making them viable for analysis and therapeutic use for 30 years.
Ashish Koshy, group chief working officer of M42, stated, “The Abu Dhabi Biobank will foster world innovation in remedy improvement, because it holds enormous potential for regenerative drugs, aiding in uncommon illness remedy, genetic screening, early detection, and scientific analysis. We’re proud to companion with DoH on this initiative, and we sit up for collaborating with them and different healthcare suppliers to drive progress in well being and reinforce Abu Dhabi’s place as a world life science hub.”
The twine blood financial institution regionally collects and preserves umbilical twine cells, providing donors the selection of preserving a new child’s stem cells at beginning, for doubtlessly lifesaving remedies at no danger to them or their child.
Expectant moms can protect their child’s twine blood by choosing a protected, safe, painless, and non-intrusive course of that may save lives and assist construct a more healthy nation. They’ll have the chance to protect the stem cells as a part of public or non-public banking.
Reinforcing the Emirate’s place as a number one vacation spot for all times sciences, the initiative goals to shorten ready occasions for remedy, improve therapeutic entry for sufferers, enhance survival charges and scale back the financial burden on governments.
Introduced on the inaugural Abu Dhabi International Healthcare Week 2024 the place M42 is collaborating because the Basis Accomplice, the Abu Dhabi Biobank is a part of the emirate’s imaginative and prescient of constructing a novel world biobanking hub delivering invaluable knowledge belongings for maximal affect on individuals’s well being.
It will likely be a key pillar of well being transformation and goals to ship excellence by creating a various, foundational, bio-asset that helps therapeutic remedies, life science analysis for medical innovation, novel drug discovery targets and illness prevention to ship the best stage of personalised, exact, and preventative healthcare for all.
The service shall be launched throughout 4 main healthcare entities dedicated to maternal and youngster well being throughout Abu Dhabi. Potential dad and mom can avail themselves of this service at Danat Al Emarat Hospital for Girls & Youngsters, a part of the M42 group, Corniche Hospital, Kanad Hospital, and hospitals as a part of NMC Healthcare.
Noura Khamis Al Ghaithi, Undersecretary of DoH, stated that the wealth of organic and medical knowledge amassed by the Biobank will catalyse scientific breakthroughs, expediting drug discovery, thus contributing to the Emirate’s capability to search out options for native and world well being challenges. It is going to considerably affect medical care and affected person outcomes, emphasising cord-derived stem cell therapies and enabling native stem cell remedy supply.
She added, “The Abu Dhabi Biobank’s capability to hyperlink twine blood, tissue, stem cells, and a variety of regular and pathological human specimens with established giant genomic, proteomics and medical information units the scene for transformative and cutting-edge initiatives.”
An necessary development for the nation’s well being ecosystem, the twine blood financial institution of Abu Dhabi Biobank will allow higher care outcomes, construct the nation’s self-sufficiency in assembly the pressing want for twine blood stem cells, and additional improve regional capabilities in analysis and innovation.
Stem cells work like a ‘bio restore equipment’, serving to to heal, restore and replenish different cells that can be utilized to deal with sure haematological and immune system problems, like leukaemia, lymphoma and bone marrow ailments requiring a transplant.
With a capability to retailer 100,000 twine blood samples and 5 million pan-human samples, the Biobank will create a wealthy, numerous dataset that may present prepared and better-matched hemopoietic stem cells globally. It goals to boost group well-being by preventive measures and entry to superior, high-quality well being providers.
Abu Dhabi Biobank’s twine blood financial institution facility, located in M42’s Omics Centre of Excellence, is provided with state-of-the-art automated know-how and the very best large-capacity biobanking infrastructure. This infrastructure will protect samples safely and securely, thereby making them viable for analysis and therapeutic use for 30 years.
Ashish Koshy, group chief working officer of M42, stated, “The Abu Dhabi Biobank will foster world innovation in remedy improvement, because it holds enormous potential for regenerative drugs, aiding in uncommon illness remedy, genetic screening, early detection, and scientific analysis. We’re proud to companion with DoH on this initiative, and we sit up for collaborating with them and different healthcare suppliers to drive progress in well being and reinforce Abu Dhabi’s place as a world life science hub.”
The twine blood financial institution regionally collects and preserves umbilical twine cells, providing donors the selection of preserving a new child’s stem cells at beginning, for doubtlessly lifesaving remedies at no danger to them or their child.
Expectant moms can protect their child’s twine blood by choosing a protected, safe, painless, and non-intrusive course of that may save lives and assist construct a more healthy nation. They’ll have the chance to protect the stem cells as a part of public or non-public banking.
