OBBR in the News

Patients, Hospitals Wrestle Over Tumor Tissue
July 29, 2010
The Philadelphia Inquirer

As genetic profiling of tumor samples become more common place, the demand for biospecimens from doctors, researchers and patients continues to grow. The Philadelphia Inquirer wrestles this topic and NCI OBBR Director Carolyn Compton weighs in on this increasingly challenging issue.

The Legacy Plan
July 9, 2010
Science Magazine

Biospecimens collected over many years are a precious resource for the researchers who collected them. But what happens to them when those researchers retire?

Libraries of Flesh: The Sorry State of Human Tissue Storage
June 2010
Wired Magazine

State-of-the-art medical care and research are increasingly dependent on biobanks, and while the sciences that depend on them have advanced in recent years, biobanking practices have fallen behind. Wired Magazine takes an in-depth look with NCI OBBR's Carolyn Compton, M.D., Ph.D., at the issue of human tissue storage and how caHUB is leading the charge to reform the biobanking industry.

A Year in Health 2009
December 7, 2009
Time Magazine

NCI OBBR's efforts to establish a national biobank is named a 2009 health advance.

Of Biobanks and Biospecimens
October 2009
NIH Catalyst

This article is an in-depth look at biobanking and biospecimen quality and the NCI OBBR's efforts to create a national cancer human biobank known as caHUB.

Quality Biospecimens: Critical to Realizing the Promise of Personalized Medicine
October 2009
Critical Values

NCI OBBR's Carolyn Compton, M.D., Ph.D., Katerina Christiansen, M.S., and Kimberly Myers, Ph.D. discuss the emerging potential of personalized medicine, the scope of the biospecimen quality problem, and NCI initiatives to address these issues.

What Happens to a Donated Tumor?
Summer 2009
CR Magazine

This article addresses the future and promise of tissue biobanks. NCI OBBR's Carolyn Compton, M.D., Ph.D., and Nicole Lockhart, Ph.D., discuss the Biospecimen Research Network and the ethical, legal, and policy challenges faced by biobanks.

The Surgical Specimen is the Personalized Part of Personalized Medicine
Aug. 16, 2009
Annals of Surgical Oncology

In this editorial, NCI OBBR Director Carolyn Compton, M.D., Ph.D., addresses the evolving role of the surgeon and pathologist in meeting the needs of cancer research in the age of personalized medicine.

10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now
March 12, 2009
Time Magazine

Biobankings are number eight on Time Magazine's "10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now." Featured in the article is NCI OBBR's effort to build the United States' first national biobank.