Can a user be part of 2 institutes?

In OpenSpecimen, an Institute represents a high-level administrative boundary—such as a university, hospital, or research center. A user cannot be a part of 2 institutes.
When the user belongs to an institute, he/she can be assigned roles only on the sites/CPs under that institute. Hence a workaround would be to create these institutes as sites instead.

Scenario

Dr. Jane Doe is a researcher affiliated with both:

• University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

• Stanford University School of Medicine

At UCSF, she leads a breast cancer biobank using OpenSpecimen, while at Stanford, she collaborates on a precision medicine project involving genomic data and biospecimens.

Requirements

Dr. Doe needs access to:

• UCSF's collection protocols to manage samples locally

• Stanford's protocols to contribute and analyze shared samples

How to handle this in OpenSpecimen?

1. Create ‘University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)’ and ‘Stanford University School of Medicine’ as sites under the same institute instead of two separate institutes

2. Dr. Doe can have different roles in each site. For instance:

Roles can be finely tuned to allow protocol access, data entry, query building, and more.