BioLinked

Linking extraordinary people like you with the nation's most promising research.

Join the Registry

Founded by Our Blood Institute in 2015, BioLinked presents an easy way for our incredible donors to save lives and contribute to medical breakthroughs through clinical research uniquely tailored to them.

In less than a decade, OBI donors who have participated in BioLinked have helped advance medicine in some amazing ways. Here are just a few:

Signing up is easy!

It takes about five minutes to create a BioLinked Registry profile. After that, just fill out a brief health questionnaire and someone from OBI will contact you the next time the right research opportunity becomes available.

Join the BioLinked Registry

Have Questions?

Interested but need more information? Make sure to visit BioLinked's Frequently Asked Questions page. Hover over the "For Participants" section and you will find helpful answers about the types of studies available, payment details and more.

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Additional Research Opportunities

Not ready to sign up for BioLinked? That’s OK! New research opportunities are regularly posted to our Research & Innovation page and in the section below. Many offer reimbursement for time and travel, and all of them are dependent on people like you. Prospective participants can call 405-297-3240 and a member of our R&D team will answer any questions you have and get you scheduled.

  • Mononuclear cell apheresis | $250
    • Apheresis procedures like plateletpheresis

    • The cells that are collected are used by researchers and biotech companies to develop immune cell-based cancer therapies

    • Some of the donations are used as the staring material for a immune cell based drug that is undergoing clinical trials in patients

  • Hematopoetic progenetaor cell donation | $750
    • Apheresis procedures like plateletpheresis

    • Prior to procedure, donors are given subcutaneous injections of a growth factor that causes immature blood cells to be released from the bone marrow into the circulating blood

    • The cells that are collected are used by researchers and biotech companies to develop immune cell-based cancer therapies

    • Some of the donations are used as the starting material for a immune cell-based drug that is undergoing clinical trials in patients

  • Bone marrow donation | $500
    • The amount of blood removed is the same volume as occurs in a normal blood donation.

    • These products are used to harvest mesenchymal stromal cells, which are used to promote growth in damaged tissue

    • Donors are admitted to a local surgery center

    • Donors are given conscious sedation anesthesia. The donor is asleep, but not sedated to a level that requires a breathing tube

    • A special needle is inserted into the hip and bone marrow is removed

  • Glaskosmithkline plasma donation | Reimbursement rate varies
    • Donors are screened for high levels of a specific blood factor

    • Selected donors are asked to donate plasma

  • Research samples | Reimbursement rate varies
    • Research-specific samples drawn from relevant populations

    • Requirements vary