Healthy donors wanted: your samples could unlock blood disease secrets
NCT ID NCT00442195
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Sep 17, 2026 · Updated 13 times
Summary
This study collects blood, bone marrow, and cheek cell samples from healthy volunteers to help researchers understand blood diseases like aplastic anemia. Participants must be 8 or older (18 for bone marrow). The samples are used for lab research only, not to treat any condition. Up to 1,000 volunteers will be enrolled.
This is an AI summary of the original study and may miss details. Read our disclaimer.
Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
-
About 1,000 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
-
Mar 2007
- Lead sponsor
-
A government research agency
The lead sponsor is the US National Institutes of Health.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
Who is studied
Healthy Volunteers
- Ages
-
8 to 99 years
- Sex
-
Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
-
Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
Show the full entry requirements Hide the full entry requirements
Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
* INCLUSION CRITERIA: Self-declared healthy volunteer (for blood and buccal mucosa sample donors). Be healthy, as determined by Principal Investigator or designee based on recent (\<3 months) history, physical and laboratory results (for bone marrow and skin tissue sample donors). \<TAB\>\<TAB\>\<TAB\>\<TAB\>\<TAB\> Age 8 years and older (no upper limit) for blood and buccal mucosa sampling. OR Ages 18 years or older (no upper limit) for bone marrow or skin tissue sampling. EXCLUSION CRITERIA: Unable to comprehend the investigational nature of the protocol participation. CBC determined outside expected normal ranges for the subject (bone marrow and skin tissue donors only). Pregnancy Age less than 18 years for skin tissue sampling, bone marrow aspirate and biopsy. Off campus volunteers for skin tissue sampling bone marrow aspirate and biopsy.
Get updates
Get notified about this study
Sign up to get updates when this study changes or when new studies for Healthy volunteers are added.
Genom att skicka in godkänner du våra Användarvillkor
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
-
The places running it
1 site. The list below names each one and where it is.
-
The official record
ClinicalTrials.gov lists the study team's own contact details, including names and phone numbers. We don't republish those.
-
A doctor treating you
A doctor who knows your case can contact a study site on your behalf, and can tell you whether this study is worth pursuing at all.
Contacts and locations
Locations
-
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
RECRUITINGBethesda, Maryland, 20892, United States
More trials for these conditions
Other studies related to the condition(s) this trial covers.
- Scientists probe the nerve highways behind strength gains
- New syphilis test kits put to the test with donated blood
- Can a copy of a blockbuster arthritis drug match the original? scientists test it in healthy people
- Novo nordisk tests Brand-New molecule in humans for the first time
- New sedative candidate goes Head-to-Head with propofol in early human test
- Can a Room-Temperature dairy drink build muscle?