By bluerasberry on 2012-03-25
Peggy Porter spoke representing the Consortium Biospecimen Resource (CRS), which is a biobank housed at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. She said that the organization has good procedures in place to conduct informed consent, collect specimens, and manage the sharing of specimens to researchers, but in her organization and in the industry in general there […]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, education, health, presentation, research, rights, Seattle | Tagged net generation, social media
By bluerasberry on 2012-03-24
John T. Slattery is a member of the Department of Bioethics & Humanities at the University of Washington and of the Washington Phenotyped Biospecimen Resource. He was one of the speakers at that Friday 23 March communication conference. He spoke about a need to increase the information available to and usable by people receiving healthcare […]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, education, Seattle | Tagged bioethics, conference, free as in freedom, John Slattery, open source
By bluerasberry on 2012-03-24
Yesterday Friday 23 March there was an informal meetup for people interested in ethics, biobanking, and modern media in Seattle. It was by invitation. I think most people who attended knew many of the other people in the room, and what I took away from the meeting was that we all share a common problem […]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, health, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged biotech, conference
By bluerasberry on 2012-03-21
I am posting some examples of silly ads in this post. These are not my ads and they are not clickable – they are for illustration purposes and I explain them in this post. I do not feel that the mainstream media perspective about Wikipedia or other encyclopedias is reasonable. In this post I am […]
Posted in education, Open access, Wikipedia | Tagged advertising, book, publishing
By bluerasberry on 2012-03-12
On three of us members of the HIV Vaccine Research Unit Community Advisory Board made a video to inform potential new members about what it would mean for them to join our group. The video was to have two purposes – to introduce HIV vaccine research and to introduce the concept of layman meeting in […]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, drug, education, non-profit, research, rights, Seattle | Tagged HIV vaccine, videography
By bluerasberry on 2012-02-16
On Monday 13 February Sharon Terry of Genetic Alliance was in Seattle and gave a talk at the Public Health Cafe. The Public Health Cafe is a community science presenation organized by the UW Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Science. I love it! I had seen Sharon’s YouTube video explaining why she got into the […]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, education, health, non-profit, Open access, presentation, research, Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged Genetic Alliance, Jon Izant, Public Health Cafe, Sage Bionetworks, Sharon Terry
By bluerasberry on 2012-02-09
Lee’s hamster seemed unhappy for a couple of months. He was not running on his wheel and when he was in his ball he hardly wanted to explore. He seemed healthy otherwise and explored his pen and liked to run around on the floor. He was eating normally and liked to be petted. Eventually we […]
Posted in animal | Tagged hamster, rescue, rodent, surgery
By bluerasberry on 2012-02-08
I talked with Jami Mathewson from the Wikimedia Foundation on 13 December about the campus ambassador program. We talked a bit since then, and then on 6 February we had a long talk and I agreed to be the regional contact for campus ambassadors, professors, or anyone else who wanted to join Wikipedia’s Campus Ambassador […]
Posted in Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged campus ambassador
By bluerasberry on 2012-01-24
I have malaria right now. I got it from the Malaria Clinical Trials Center at Seattle Biomed. I am participating in a clinical trial which is measuring change of the immune response in the liver for a person who gets malaria several times after never having had it before. I had never before had malaria […]
Posted in clinical research, research | Tagged clinical trial, malaria
