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We have determined that the microbes (bacteria) in the colon can play a role in causing and preventing complications of colon surgery. While the surgical bowel prep before surgery eliminates the harmful bacteria, it also eliminates the beneficial bacteria that aid wound healing. The purpose of this study is to determine if we can restore the presence of good bacteria (also known as ‘intestinal microbiota’) in the colon by transplanting them from a healthy donor.

Social determinants of health (SDoH) like housing instability, food insecurity, and financial burden, for example, can negatively affect people dealing with cancer. With new cancer treatments and higher costs for patients, people dealing with cancer may worry more about those issues. The goal of this study is to compare the ways people with cancer are connected to resources addressing specific needs and how those connections help their overall well-being. The research study will take about five months and participants will spend around one hour on research activities (each survey would take less than 15 minutes). The time you spend following up on helpful resources is completely up to participants.

This study is to see if patients who get tafasitamab in addition to the standard regimen of lenalidomide and rituximab when they are just starting treatment are more likely to stay in remission after treatment than those who do not. We expect that participants will be in this research study for approximately 3 years total. Patients will be on active treatment for approximately 1 year.

This study aims to quantify the rates of cervical cancer screening and endometrial sampling prior to gender-affirming hysterectomy, assess the need for these tests in TGD individuals, and explore patient-centered options for these tests.

This study is about understanding how cognitive, sensory, and motor processes interact. Participants must be a stroke survivor, with a unilateral stroke, leaving arm weakness on one side only, that happened at least 3 months ago.

This study is about treatment of Melanoma (a kind of skin cancer) that has spread or cannot be surgically removed and has gotten worse after standard treatments. This study includes patients with melanoma from any part of the body except the eye. The main purpose of this study is to learn if the study medicine (tebentafusp), alone or a combination with pembrolizumab, helps patients with advanced melanoma live longer. The combination of pembrolizumab and tebentafusp used in this study is experimental.

This phase I/II trial tests the safety, side effects, and best dose of selinexor given in combination with standard radiation therapy in treating children and young adults with newly diagnosed diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) or high-grade glioma (HGG) with a genetic change called H3 K27M mutation. It also tests whether combination of selinexor and standard radiation therapy works to shrink tumors in this patient population. Glioma is a type of cancer that occurs in the brain or spine. Glioma is considered high risk (or high-grade) when it is growing and spreading quickly.

The purpose of CureGN3 is to gather a group of people with glomerular disease to create a source of information and blood and urine samples, so that researchers can easily and effectively study glomerular disease.

The overall goal of this study is to determine if treating first relapse B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) with a combination of blinatumomab and nivolumab is more effective than blinatumomab alone.

This study is about a new mobile application program called “NEAT-O” which stands for Negative Emotions and Addiction Tools for Opioid Use Disorder. It is designed for people who are struggling with opioid use and also facing issues with anxiety or depression. We are testing the program to see if it's helpful and easy to use. We would also like to learn about your experiences and perspectives on coping strategies for managing symptoms related to opioid use disorder, anxiety, and depression.

The purpose of this research study is to test the safety of giving two separate 5-day infusions (starting on Day 1 and again around Day 15) through a vein with a drug called gallium nitrate. Laboratory tests suggest that this drug may be able to fight Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) infections

This is a registry study. The Cardiac Sarcoidosis Consortium (CSC) is an international, multicenter partnership among physicians and allied professionals at major medical centers with the unifying purpose to learn more about cardiac sarcoidosis through collaborative research.

This study will look at the effects of treatment combining Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) for young people who have tic disorder. Participants must be 12- 21 years old and able to have an MRI. All participants will receive 10 daily sessions of CBIT, a well-established behavioral treatment that is considered to be the first treatment for tics. Participants will also be assigned randomly (by chance) to receive TMS or a sham (treatment not delivered) just before each CBIT session. The device for TMS delivers electromagnetic stimulation to a specific area of the brain with a small coil on the scalp. The effectiveness of the CBIT for the two groups, with and without the TMS, will be compared.

The purpose of this study is to determine if microbiota transplant therapy (MTT) is an effective treatment for patients with alopecia areata, alopecia totalis, and alopecia universalis. We will be testing two different ways of doing the Microbiota transplant therapy (MTT): half the people who choose to be part of this study will take antibiotics before the transplant and half will take placebo antibiotics. We will collect 5 types of samples (2 or more times during the study): blood samples, skin samples, skin swabs, hair, and fecal samples.

The primary purpose of this study is to record outcomes and patient characteristics in the Masonic Cancer Center and BMT databases for patients undergoing a second transplant using a haploidentical donor, an unrelated donor or umbilical cord blood. The data will be analyzed for transplant “milestones” such as time to blood count recovery (engraftment) and how patients are doing at 3 months and 6 months after the transplant. Participation in this study will not alter treatment or medical care. All information for this study will be collected from medical records.

The purpose of this study is to determine the most effective ways to get rid of Staph aureus on body surfaces before surgery. We will determine if the participants can effectively get rid of the bacteria with the simple application of various treatment methods assigned to them. We will study if these methods are useful and cost effective in preventing the infections after surgery.

The purpose of this study is to understand how relighting cigarettes affects the level of toxicants inhaled during smoking, compared to smoking non-relit cigarettes.

This study is about understanding how TMS affects the balance between inhibitory and facilitatory processes in the motor cortex. The study includes an experimental device, specifically transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), electroencephalography (EEG), and electromyography (EMG). TMS is a non-invasive brain stimulation method to probe brain activity. EEG is used to record brain activity through electrodes placed on the head, while EMG measures muscle activity through sensors attached to the skin.

We are conducting a research study for children ages 6-17 with patchy Alopecia Areata (AA). The purpose of this research study is to learn more about the safety, tolerability and efficacy of an investigational drug called Baricitinib. This study will compare the investigational drug to a placebo (inactive substance) to see how well the investigational drug works.

This study is about finding out if long-term use of iptacopan (LNP023) is safe and can help others who have C3 Glomerulopathy (C3G) or idiopathic immune-complex membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (IC-MPGN). This study if for people who have completed either the IC-MPGN Phase 3 CLNP023B12302 “APPARENT” study or the C3G Phase 3 CLNP023B12301 “APPEAR-C3G” study.

The purpose of the study is to establish and maintain a biorepository of tissue and biospecimen samples relevant to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) research. We will obtain, store, and catalogue peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), blood and blood components, skin punch biopsy samples, and cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) from people living with ALS, linked to clinical datasets, to advance ALS research.

This research study is aimed at finding the changes in brain activity of people who have experienced a stroke and how it may affect their movement coordination during walking. Participants will be asked to walk on a treadmill at a comfortable speed while their movement pattern will be measured. Participants will also undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan and assessment of the brain activity using Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) which is a non-invasive brain stimulation method often used to stimulate nerve cells in the brain and assess connectivity between the brain and individual muscles.

The purpose of this research is to better understand balance and walking in a healthy adult population to compare to patients with Parkinson’s Disease. This research study uses small wearable devices that attach to your clothing and can measure your body’s location while performing walking and balance tests. We expect that you will be in this research study at the Minnesota State Fair for approximately 10-15 minutes.

The purpose of this study is to study the evolution of early life risk factors that may lead to cancer and other conditions. This is a prospective cohort study of families who reside in Minnesota.

The main purpose of this study is to test whether Walkasins can help people with peripheral neuropathy maintain their balance better. Walkasins have been developed to improve balance and walking by enhancing a person’s ability to feel the pressure beneath his/her feet as he/she walks.

This is a study that will investigate the relationship between visual attention and memory and brain dynamics in healthy volunteers by manipulating brain oscillations with transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS).

The goal of this study is to see if using in-home sleep activity monitoring may help understand sleep problems that occur before and after surgical treatment for Cushing Disease.

This research is being done to learn if a study drug called vosoritide can help children who are shorter than should be for their age to grow.

A study to test a medicine (fitusiran) injected under the skin for preventing bleeding episodes in male adolescent or adult participants with severe Hemophilia.

This is a long-term registry is designed to collect data on hypophosphatasia (HPP) to better understand the condition and learn more about the disease, how patients feel about living with HPP and effect of HPP on the patients wellbeing and health. The study will look at participant’s medical records and health questionnaires about the health status of patients. This study collects observational data from clinical care and does not involve any treatment for HPP or administration of medication for HPP.