Clinical Laboratory & Biomarker Core

JHUCFAR实验室核心的总体目标是为JHU艾滋病毒研究人员，特别是那些 艾滋病毒新手，具有：a)世界级实验室专业知识，协助优化临床研究设计 在专门的实验室分析对衡量研究结果至关重要的情况下，b)获得 适当的、经过验证的和经认证的实验室分析(如适用)，c)生物标志物样本 储存、编目和测试生物标本的储存库，包括进入 与这些标本有关的临床数据，以及d)培训以满足调查人员的需要 从了解如何与实验室调查人员合作，到组建实验室 临床研究中的测试，根据测试的实际性能来判断测试质量和准备使用 自己的实验室。核心将建立机制，以加强艾滋病毒预防方面的研究， 治疗和发病机制由JHU的新老研究人员通过 提高对机构内广泛实验室资源的认识和利用 需要时在约翰·霍普金斯大学以外建立联系。为此，核心将直接提供 专注于4个主要科学领域的专家咨询和化验服务-病毒学、免疫学、 药理学和代谢组学--以及提供对数据和生物样本的访问 推动科学进步的仓库。除了这些实验室，核心将建立最好的数据 管理实践-从诊所到实验室再到数据分析-并促进连接和 与JHU内和全国其他CFAR中更广泛的核心实验室进行合作。

The overall goals of the JHUCFAR Laboratory core are to provide JHU HIV researchers, especially those new to HIV, with: a) world‐class laboratory expertise to assist in the optimal design of clinical studies where specialized laboratory assays are essential to measuring study outcomes, b) access to appropriate, validated and, where applicable, certified laboratory assays, c) biomarker specimen repository for the storage, cataloguing and testing of biological specimens, including access to the clinical data associated with those specimens, and d) training to match the needs of investigators ranging from understanding how to collaborate with laboratory investigators, incorporate laboratory tests in a clinical study, judge assay quality and readiness for use to actual performance of the assays in one’s own laboratory. The Core will establish mechanisms to enhance research in HIV prevention, treatment, and pathogenesis carried out by both new and established investigators at JHU through improved awareness of and access to the extensive laboratory resources within the institution and by establishing connections outside Johns Hopkins when needed. To this end, the Core will directly provide expert consultation and assay service focused in 4 major scientific areas—virology, immunology, pharmacology, and metabolomics—as well as providing access to both data and biological specimen repositories to advance science. Beyond these laboratories, the Core will establish best data management practices – from clinic to lab to data analysis – and facilitate connections and collaborations with a far broader array of core laboratories within JHU and in other CFARs nationally.