Healthy Blood Donation for Research
rAt the Centre for Personalised Immunology, we are investigating the causes of immune diseases. These include autoimmune diseases such as lupus and
Sjögren’s syndrome, thyroiditis and type 1 diabetes, immune deficiency diseases such as common variable immune deficiency (CVID), and inflammatory diseases such as vasculitis and sarcoidosis. Many of these individual diseases are rare, but collectively affect about 5% of the population.
Australians are familiar with the idea of donating blood to help people who need life-saving transfusions or regular blood products, but donating for medical research is less well known. Donating blood for research helps us to advance medical knowledge about a wide range of immunerelated medical conditions and diseases. New and effective treatments for these conditions depend on medical research. Several of our existing donors are also ARCBS donors and we can work around your regular ARCBS donations.
If you are interested in donating blood for medical research, we will need to ask you a few questions about your health. You might not be eligible if your medical history includes any of the following:
**such as corticosteroids, immune-suppressants, cytotoxic chemotherapy, immune-modulating monoclonal antibody therapy.
Please feel free to contact us for further information:
EMAIL cpi.info@anu.edu.au
If you would like to participate as a healthy blood donor, either on a single occasion or on an ongoing basis, please read the participant information sheet below and return your completed consent form to CPI.info@anu.edu.au
Sjögren’s syndrome, thyroiditis and type 1 diabetes, immune deficiency diseases such as common variable immune deficiency (CVID), and inflammatory diseases such as vasculitis and sarcoidosis. Many of these individual diseases are rare, but collectively affect about 5% of the population.
Australians are familiar with the idea of donating blood to help people who need life-saving transfusions or regular blood products, but donating for medical research is less well known. Donating blood for research helps us to advance medical knowledge about a wide range of immunerelated medical conditions and diseases. New and effective treatments for these conditions depend on medical research. Several of our existing donors are also ARCBS donors and we can work around your regular ARCBS donations.
If you are interested in donating blood for medical research, we will need to ask you a few questions about your health. You might not be eligible if your medical history includes any of the following:
- an autoimmune or inflammatory disease*
- immune deficiency
- treatment with immune-modulating drug**
- recent radiotherapy
- organ transplantation
- malignancy
- type 2 diabetes
- pregnant
- Hepatitis C
- if you have a first degree relative with confirmed systemic autoimmune disease or primary immune deficiency
**such as corticosteroids, immune-suppressants, cytotoxic chemotherapy, immune-modulating monoclonal antibody therapy.
Please feel free to contact us for further information:
EMAIL cpi.info@anu.edu.au
If you would like to participate as a healthy blood donor, either on a single occasion or on an ongoing basis, please read the participant information sheet below and return your completed consent form to CPI.info@anu.edu.au
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