Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research

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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.

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): 1359–61. doi:10.1001/jama.299.11.1359. PMID 18349099.
  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.

External links

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