Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research

The Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research is a division of the United States National Cancer Institute which was formed in 2005 to promote and develop biobank infrastructure.

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History

The guidelines which the OBBR published were among the first generation of policies relating to biobank ethics.[1]

Biospecimen Research Network Symposia

The OBBR organizes an annual conference called the "Biospecimen Research Network Symposia".[2]

References

  1. ^ Ginsburg, G. S.; Burke, T. W.; Febbo, P. (2008). "Centralized Biorepositories for Genetic and Genomic Research". JAMA: the Journal of the American Medical Association 299 (11): 1359. doi:10.1001/jama.299.11.1359.  edit
  2. ^ Moore, H. M.; Compton, C. C.; Lim, M. D.; Vaught, J.; Christiansen, K. N.; Alper, J. (2009). "2009 Biospecimen Research Network Symposium: Advancing Cancer Research Through Biospecimen Science". Cancer Research 69 (17): 6770–6772. doi:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-09-1795. PMC 2782665. PMID 19706749. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2782665.  edit

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