The Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research is a division of the United States
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) coordinates the United States National Cancer Program and is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which is one of eleven agencies that are part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ...
which was formed in 2005 to promote and develop
biobank
A biobank is a type of biorepository that stores biological samples (usually human) for use in research. Biobanks have become an important resource in medical research, supporting many types of contemporary research like genomics and personalize ...
infrastructure.
History
The guidelines which the OBBR published were among the first generation of policies relating to
biobank ethics Biobank ethics refers to the ethics pertaining to all aspects of biobanks. The issues examined in the field of biobank ethics are special cases of clinical research ethics.
Overview of issues
The following table shows many of the leading controvers ...
.
Biospecimen Research Network Symposia
The OBBR organizes an annual conference called the "Biospecimen Research Network Symposia".
References
External links
*{{Official website, http://biospecimens.cancer.gov
Biobank organizations