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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Justin Chen <<a href="mailto:jchen@openbiome.org">jchen@openbiome.org</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, July 16, 2020 at 11:54 AM<br>
<b>Subject: </b>Save lives and earn money as an OpenBiome stool donor</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Hi! My name is Justin Chen and I’m an alum of the MIT Biology Department (I earned my PhD in 2018). I’m writing on behalf of my employer <a href="https://www.openbiome.org/"><span style="color:#954F72">OpenBiome</span></a>—a
healthcare nonprofit that grew out of <a href="http://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-3q-eric-alm-mysteries-human-microbiome-1207"><span style="color:#954F72">Eric Alm’s lab.</span></a> OpenBiome is a stool bank that operates like a blood blank except that we process
human stool into a treatment for <i>C. difficile </i>infections. <i>C. difficile</i>, which has been categorized by the CDC as an urgent antibiotic-resistant threat, affects 500,00 people in the United States per year leading to 30,000 deaths. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">OpenBiome is recruiting new donors and I was wondering if you could share the information above and in the next few paragraphs with students in the
Biology department. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">What: </span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Sign up <a href="https://www.openbiome.org/stool-donation"><span style="color:#954F72">here</span></a> to
become an OpenBiome stool donor!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Why: </span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">By donating stool, you can help OpenBiome fulfill a critical medical need. For recurrent cases of <i>C
difficile </i>that don’t respond to antibiotics, a fecal transplant made from OpenBiome donor stool successfully treats 84% of infections. We also reimburse donors $40 per stool donation for the time and effort that it takes. <u>A typical donor earns $250
a month.</u></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"> <b>How: </b>OpenBiome rigorously screens candidate stool donors to ensure that they are healthy enough to donate stool. Once they are qualified to
donate, stool donors provide stool on-site at OpenBiome’s facility in Kendall/Central square.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Read More: </span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">OpenBiome was featured in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/well/live/fecal-transplant-stool-donor.html"><span style="color:#954F72">2018
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Thank you for your time and attention!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">Justin </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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