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Count Me In Research Initiative Introduces Brain Cancer Project

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Experienced in the emergency services and telecommunications, Nathan Rotenberg serves as an air medical communications specialist for PennSTAR Flight the Medical Flight and Critical Care Ground Operations of Penn Medicine, an academic medical center at the University of Pennsylvania. Rotenberg also supports and contributes to various nonprofit organizations, including the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in conjunction with Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA.

Founded in 1947, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is dedicated to improving the lives of people with cancer through treatment and research. In 2018, Dana-Farber partnered with three leading nonprofits—Biden Cancer Initiative, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and Emerson Collective—to initiate a new patient-partnered research initiative called Count Me In. Count Me In recently announced the launch of Brain Cancer Project, which is aimed at encouraging Americans and Canadians who have been diagnosed with a form of brain cancer to participate in a research project to accelerate the understanding of the disease and speed discovery.

Patients who wish to participate can fill out a survey to provide research consent and share their cancer history and demographic information. Then, the patients receive saliva sample collection kits, which the researchers use to extract genetic information and compare with tumor DNA. The Brain Cancer Project will produce anonymized clinical and genomic datasets based on the analyses and share the information with the global research community via scientific web portals.