[bioundgrd] FW: Save lives and earn money as an OpenBiome donor

[Joshua Stone]

From: Justin Chen <jchen at openbiome.org<mailto:jchen at openbiome.org>>
Date: Thursday, July 16, 2020 at 11:54 AM
Subject: Save lives and earn money as an OpenBiome stool donor

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 OpenBiome<https://www.openbiome.org/>—a healthcare nonprofit that grew out of Eric Alm’s lab.<http://news.mit.edu/2018/mit-3q-eric-alm-mysteries-human-microbiome-1207> OpenBiome is a stool bank that operates like a blood blank except that we process human stool into a treatment for C. difficile infections. C. difficile, 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.
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.
What: Sign up here<https://www.openbiome.org/stool-donation> to become an OpenBiome stool donor!
Why: By donating stool, you can help OpenBiome fulfill a critical medical need. For recurrent cases of C difficile 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. A typical donor earns $250 a month.
 How: 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.

Read More: OpenBiome was featured in a 2018 New York Times article. <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/well/live/fecal-transplant-stool-donor.html>

Thank you for your time and attention!
Justin




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Justin Chen
External Affairs Specialist, OpenBiome
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