Considerations for peripheral blood transport and storage during large-scale multicentre metabolome research

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Gastroenterology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
• ² Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ³ Department of Gastroenterology, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK.
• ⁴ Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
• ⁵ National Phenome Centre, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• ⁶ Exeter Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Pharmacogenetics Research Group, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, UK.
• ⁷ Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Exeter, UK.
• ⁸ Department of Gastroenterology, St Mark's Hospital and Academic Institute, London, UK.
• ⁹ Department of Gastroenterology, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK.
• ¹⁰ School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences, King's College London, London, UK.
• ¹¹ Edinburgh IBD Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.
• ¹² Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ¹³ Centre for Immunobiology, Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK.
• ¹⁴ Department of Gastroenterology, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.
• ¹⁵ Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK.
• ¹⁶ Department of Gastroenterology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.
• ¹⁷ Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, King's College London, London, UK.
• ¹⁸ Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK.
• ¹⁹ Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Oxford University, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK.
• ²⁰ Department of Gastroenterology, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK christopher.lamb@newcastle.ac.uk.