Sample Collection From Healthy Volunteers for Assay Optimization

NCT ID: NCT03538600

Last Updated: 2025-11-26

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Total Enrollment

600 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2018-06-28

Study Completion Date

2043-06-30

Brief Summary

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Background:

The Laboratory of Immune System Biology (LISB) works with other labs at the National Institutes of Health. They study how parts of living things come together to make a whole. LISB designs and improves research tests on human samples like blood and cells. In order to do its work, LISB needs to have a lot of these samples available.

Objective:

To collect biological specimens to use for designing and improving research tests. Specimens include blood, stool, saliva, and skin/mucosal swabs.

Eligibility:

Healthy people ages 3-80

Design:

Participants will be screened with an interview about their general health and their medical history. They will have a physical exam and blood tests.

If the results of the screening are normal, participants will be asked to give one or more of these samples:

Blood will be drawn from an arm vein with a needle and syringe.

Mucus and skin will be collected by rubbing the area with a cotton swab. The areas may include the top of the tongue, inside the cheek, nostrils, behind the ear, elbow pit, or vagina.

Participants will spit into a tube to collect saliva.

Participants will pass stool into a plastic container that fits in the toilet under the seat. They will get sampling kits and instructions.

Over the next 5 years, if more samples are needed, participants will be contacted to set up another visit to the NIH. These visits will each take about 1 hour.

About every 2 years, when participants come to NIH for a visit, extra blood will be collected. It will be tested for HIV and hepatitis B and C.

Detailed Description

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The Laboratory of Immune System Biology plays a major role in fostering the growth of systems biology efforts across the National Institutes of Health, in large measure through its development of new tools for high-throughput data generation and complex systems modeling. The lab s experimental component requires ongoing assay development and optimization, which depend on the availability of human biological samples for testing. The primary purpose of this protocol is to obtain biological specimens from healthy volunteers to support the lab s development and optimization of scientific assays, and to use as control samples for research tests in other studies. The secondary objective of this study is to track immunologic changes over time using the assays developed and optimized in this study.

Conditions

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Healthy Volunteers

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Healthy Volunteers

healthy volunteers

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Aged 3-80 years.
2. Able to provide informed consent (for ages \>=18 years) or has a parent or guardian who can provide informed consent on their behalf (for ages \<18 years).
3. Agree to allow biological samples to be stored for future research.
4. Willing to provide blood, stool, saliva, skin/mucosal/tonsil swabs, and/or skin punch biopsy specimens.

Exclusion Criteria

Individuals meeting any of the following criteria will be excluded from study participation:

1. Pregnancy.
2. History of autoimmune or autoinflammatory disease.
3. Diabetes mellitus.
4. Cancer chemotherapy within the past 5 years.
5. Currently receiving treatment for an active malignancy.
6. Surgery within the past 8 weeks.
7. History of recent (within the past 30 days) infection.
8. History of significant, active parasitic, amebic, fungal, or mycobacterial infections within the past 5 years (as determined by the PI).
9. Infected with HIV and/or hepatitis B and/or C.
10. Use of an oral or inhaled glucocorticoid within the past 30 days.
11. History of a bleeding disorder.
12. Screening lab values are both outside of the NIH Department of Laboratory Medicine normal reference range and deemed clinically significant by the PI.
13. Receipt of an immunosuppressant or immunomodulatory drug within the past 30 days.
14. Receipt of a live-attenuated vaccine within the past 30 days.
15. Receipt of any other type of vaccine within the past 14 days.
16. Current or past use (within the past 90 days) of immunoglobulin therapy.
17. Current use of illicit drugs (per subject report).
18. Current use of nicotine-containing products, including cigarettes and chewing tobacco, nicotine patches, gum, electronic cigarettes, etc.
19. Current alcohol use disorders (criteria per Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition).
20. Any condition that requires active medical intervention or monitoring to avert serious danger to the individual s health or wellbeing.
21. Any condition that, in the opinion of the PI, contraindicates participation in this study or would significantly affect immune profile.

Co-enrollment guidelines: Participants may be co-enrolled in other studies. The PI may withdraw them from this study for any reason that may contraindicate participation.
Minimum Eligible Age

3 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

80 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

NIH

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Kalpana Manthiram, M.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Locations

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National Institutes of Health Clinical Center

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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United States

Central Contacts

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Laura E Failla, C.R.N.P.

Role: CONTACT

(240) 669-5323

Kalpana Manthiram, M.D.

Role: CONTACT

(301) 529-4787

Facility Contacts

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For more information at the NIH Clinical Center contact Office of Patient Recruitment (OPR)

Role: primary

800-411-1222 ext. TTY8664111010

Related Links

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Other Identifiers

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18-I-0101

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

180101

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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