Mount Sinai BioMe Biobank

The BioMe Biobank is an ongoing, prospective, hospital- and outpatient- based population research program operated by The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine (IPM) at Mount Sinai. BioMe has enrolled over 50,000 participants between September 2007 and July 2019. BioMe is an Electronic Medical Record (EMR)-linked biobank that integrates research data and clinical care information for consented patients at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, which serves diverse local communities of upper Manhattan with broad health disparities. IPM BioMe populations include 25% of African American ancestry (AA), 36% of Hispanic Latino ancestry (HL), 30% of white European ancestry (EA), and 9% of other ancestry. The BioMe disease burden is reflective of health disparities in the local communities. BioMe operations are fully integrated in clinical care processes, including direct recruitment from clinical sites waiting areas and phlebotomy stations by dedicated BioMe recruiters independent of clinical care providers, prior to or following a clinician standard of care visit. Recruitment currently occurs at a broad spectrum of over 30 clinical care sites.