 If you are an adult Kaiser Permanente member, you may have seen information about the Kaiser Permanente Research Bank in KP clinics, or you might have received an invitation to join. Kaiser Permanente Research Bank participants are helping to change the future of health. By signing up online, completing a survey, and giving a small blood sample at any one of our clinics, you help researchers make discoveries, like finding new treatments or even cures for diseases. So what happens to that small blood sample you gave? At the end of each day, our laboratory staff packages up the sample. It's shipped overnight to a secure Kaiser Permanente facility in Northern California. Your sample is kept safe and secure in a large freezer. When a researcher has an idea of something to study, like looking at a molecule that might be involved in asthma, or looking at diabetes in a certain group, they ask for permission to use some of the stored samples. Your sample is only used for approved studies. Researchers need thousands of samples to make discoveries, so every sample matters. The more people who join the KP Research Bank, the more powerful our information can be. There's power in numbers. Learn more at kp.org slash research bank.