Though HMS scientists perform most of the research in their labs, the Munich team has provided an abundance of blood samples. Tenen said he has received about 120 samples from Munich clinics.
HMS and Munich University have been collaborating on this research for about the last two years. Hiddemann, a hematologist, met with Tenen in Grainau, Germany for their first workshop last month.
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"[The project] is designed to bring together clinicians in Munich and research at Harvard," Van Etten said. "[The collaboration] started informally with personnel transfer between Harvard and Munich."