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doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofac171. eCollection 2022 Jun.

Mission, Organization, and Future Direction of the Serological Sciences Network for COVID-19 (SeroNet) Epidemiologic Cohort Studies

Jane C Figueiredo¹, Fred R Hirsch², Lawrence H Kushi³, Wendy N Nembhard⁴, James M Crawford⁵, Nicholas Mantis⁶, Laurel Finster¹, Noah M Merin⁷, Akil Merchant⁷, Karen L Reckamp¹, Gil Y Melmed⁸, Jonathan Braun⁸, Dermot McGovern⁸, Samir Parekh², Douglas A Corley³, Namvar Zohoori⁴, Benjamin C Amick⁴, Ruofei Du⁴, Peter K Gregersen⁵, Betty Diamond⁵, Emanuela Taioli², Carlos Sariol⁹, Ana Espino⁹, Daniela Weiskopf¹⁰, Alba Gifoni¹⁰, James Brien¹¹, William Hanege¹², Marc Lipsitch¹², David A Zidar¹³, Ann Scheck McAlearney¹⁴, Ania Wajnberg¹⁵, Joshua LaBaer¹⁶, E Yvonne Lewis¹⁷, Raquel A Binder¹⁸, Ann M Moormann¹⁸, Catherine Forconi¹⁸, Sarah Forrester¹⁹, Jennifer Batista¹⁹, John Schieffelin²⁰, Dongjoo Kim²¹, Giulia Biancon²², Jennifer VanOudenhove²², Stephanie Halene²², Rong Fan²¹, Dan H Barouch²³, Galit Alter²⁴, Swetha Pinninti²⁵, Suresh B Boppana²⁵, Sunil K Pati²⁵, Misty Latting²⁵, Andrew H Karaba²⁶, John Roback²⁷, Rafick Sekaly²⁷, Andrew Neish²⁷, Ahnalee M Brincks²⁸, Douglas A Granger²⁹, Amy B Karger³⁰, Bharat Thyagarajan³¹, Stefani N Thomas³⁰, Sabra L Klein³¹, Andrea L Cox²⁶, Todd Lucas³², Debra Furr-Holden³², Kent Key³², Nicole Jones³², Jens Wrammerr³³, Mehul Suthar³³, Serre Yu Wong³⁴, Natalie M Bowman³⁵, Viviana Simon³⁶, Lynne D Richardson³⁷, Russell McBride³⁸, Florian Krammer³⁶, Meenakshi Rana³⁸, Joshua Kennedy³⁹, Karl Boehme⁴⁰, Craig Forrest⁴⁰, Steve W Granger⁴¹, Christopher D Heaney⁴², Maria Knight Lapinski⁴³, Shannon Wallet⁴⁴, Ralph S Baric⁴⁵, Luca Schifanella⁴⁶, Marcos Lopez⁴⁷, Soledad Fernández⁴⁸, Eben Kenah⁴⁹, Ashish R Panchal⁵⁰, William J Britt⁵¹, Iñaki Sanz⁵², Madhav Dhodapkar⁵², Rafi Ahmed⁵³, Luther A Bartelt³⁵, Alena J Markmann³⁵, Jessica T Lin³⁵, Robert S Hagan³⁵, Matthew C Wolfgang⁵⁴, Jacek Skarbinski³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
³ Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USA.
⁴ Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
⁵ Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, New York, USA.
⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, New York, New York, USA.
⁷ Division of Hematology and Cellular Therapy, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁸ F. Widjaja Foundation Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁹ Unit of Comparative Medicine, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA.
¹⁰ La Jolla Institute of Immunology, La Jolla, California, USA.
¹¹ Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
¹² Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
¹³ Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Family and Community Medicine, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
¹⁶ Biodesign Virginia G. Piper Center for Personalized Diagnostics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Public Health, Michigan State University, Flint, Michigan, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
¹⁹ Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
²⁰ Department of Pediatrics, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
²¹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
²² Section of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
²³ The Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
²⁴ Ragon Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
²⁵ Departments of Pediatrics, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
²⁶ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
²⁷ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
²⁸ Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Social Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
²⁹ Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, USA.
³⁰ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
³¹ W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
³² Division of Public Health, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
³³ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Disease, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
³⁴ The Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
³⁵ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
³⁶ Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
³⁷ Institute for Health Equity Research and Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
³⁸ Department of Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
³⁹ Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
⁴⁰ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
⁴¹ Salimetrics, LLC, Carlsbad, California, USA.
⁴² Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁴³ Department of Communication, Michigan AgBio Research, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
⁴⁴ Department of Oral and Craniofacial Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
⁴⁵ Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
⁴⁶ Division of Surgical Outcomes and Precision Medicine Research, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
⁴⁷ Puerto Rico Public Health Trust, Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust and University of Puerto Rico at Humacao, Medical Sciences, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA.
⁴⁸ Department of Biomedical Informatics, Center for Biostatistics, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
⁴⁹ Division of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
⁵⁰ Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
⁵¹ Department of Immunology, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
⁵² Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁵³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁵⁴ Marsico Lung Institute and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

PMID: 35765315
PMCID: PMC9129196
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac171

Mission, Organization, and Future Direction of the Serological Sciences Network for COVID-19 (SeroNet) Epidemiologic Cohort Studies

Jane C Figueiredo et al. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2022.

. 2022 Apr 27;9(6):ofac171.

doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofac171. eCollection 2022 Jun.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
³ Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USA.
⁴ Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
⁵ Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Northwell Health, Manhasset, New York, USA.
⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, New York, New York, USA.
⁷ Division of Hematology and Cellular Therapy, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁸ F. Widjaja Foundation Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁹ Unit of Comparative Medicine, University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA.
¹⁰ La Jolla Institute of Immunology, La Jolla, California, USA.
¹¹ Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
¹² Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
¹³ Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Family and Community Medicine, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
¹⁶ Biodesign Virginia G. Piper Center for Personalized Diagnostics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Public Health, Michigan State University, Flint, Michigan, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
¹⁹ Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
²⁰ Department of Pediatrics, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
²¹ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
²² Section of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
²³ The Center for Virology and Vaccine Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
²⁴ Ragon Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
²⁵ Departments of Pediatrics, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
²⁶ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
²⁷ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
²⁸ Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Social Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
²⁹ Institute for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience Research, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, USA.
³⁰ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
³¹ W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
³² Division of Public Health, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
³³ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Disease, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
³⁴ The Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
³⁵ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
³⁶ Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
³⁷ Institute for Health Equity Research and Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
³⁸ Department of Pathology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.
³⁹ Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
⁴⁰ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
⁴¹ Salimetrics, LLC, Carlsbad, California, USA.
⁴² Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁴³ Department of Communication, Michigan AgBio Research, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.
⁴⁴ Department of Oral and Craniofacial Health Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
⁴⁵ Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
⁴⁶ Division of Surgical Outcomes and Precision Medicine Research, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
⁴⁷ Puerto Rico Public Health Trust, Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust and University of Puerto Rico at Humacao, Medical Sciences, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA.
⁴⁸ Department of Biomedical Informatics, Center for Biostatistics, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
⁴⁹ Division of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
⁵⁰ Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
⁵¹ Department of Immunology, Heersink School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
⁵² Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁵³ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁵⁴ Marsico Lung Institute and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

PMID: 35765315
PMCID: PMC9129196
DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofac171

Abstract

Background: Global efforts are needed to elucidate the epidemiology of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the underlying cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), including seroprevalence, risk factors, and long-term sequelae, as well as immune responses after vaccination across populations and the social dimensions of prevention and treatment strategies.

Methods: In the United States, the National Cancer Institute in partnership with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, established the SARS-CoV-2 Serological Sciences Network (SeroNet) as the nation's largest coordinated effort to study coronavirus disease 2019. The network comprises multidisciplinary researchers bridging gaps and fostering collaborations among immunologists, epidemiologists, virologists, clinicians and clinical laboratories, social and behavioral scientists, policymakers, data scientists, and community members. In total, 49 institutions form the SeroNet consortium to study individuals with cancer, autoimmune disease, inflammatory bowel diseases, cardiovascular diseases, human immunodeficiency virus, transplant recipients, as well as otherwise healthy pregnant women, children, college students, and high-risk occupational workers (including healthcare workers and first responders).

Results: Several studies focus on underrepresented populations, including ethnic minorities and rural communities. To support integrative data analyses across SeroNet studies, efforts are underway to define common data elements for standardized serology measurements, cellular and molecular assays, self-reported data, treatment, and clinical outcomes.

Conclusions: In this paper, we discuss the overarching framework for SeroNet epidemiology studies, critical research questions under investigation, and data accessibility for the worldwide scientific community. Lessons learned will help inform preparedness and responsiveness to future emerging diseases.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; SeroNet; cohort; epidemiology; serosurveillance.

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