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  • 2024-11-20 - EDMUS Foundation / OFSEP Call for research proposals

    The EDMUS Foundation, in partnership with the France Sclérose en Plaques Foundation, launches its 10th call for research proposals. It aims at fostering research with relevance to multiple sclerosis and related disorders, provided the studies are using data collected / or to be collected by the Observatoire Français de la Sclérose en Plaques (OFSEP). More details on the EDMUS Foundation website.

  • 2023-11-27 - EDMUS Foundation / OFSEP Call for research proposals

    The EDMUS Foundation, in partnership with the ARSEP Foundation, launches its ninth call for research proposals. It aims at fostering research with relevance to multiple sclerosis and related disorders, provided the studies are using data collected / or to be collected by the Observatoire Français de la Sclérose en Plaques (OFSEP). More details on the EDMUS Foundation website.

  • 2023-10-04 - 39th ECTRIMS Congress

    39th ECTRIMS  Congress (European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis) will be held in Milan from 11 to 13 October 2023. Our coordination team will welcome you at stand E44.

 

Biology

As part of the patient routine healthcare, biological samples (blood, cerebrospinal fluid and saliva) are collected in the participating centers and sent to the biobank of each center.

The patients involved belong to sub-populations of specific interest for research, called nested cohorts.

The samples are then processed by the biobank technicians and stored between -80°C and -196°C for long term storage, according to OFSEP standardized procedures. Furthermore, the collaboration between OFSEP and the Nantes biobank enables DNA extractions and storage. The multicenter biological sample collection is thus compiled and the associated data are centralized in the TumoroteK (TK®) database.

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