Research Contracts Awarded

New Research Contracts Awarded for BRN RFP "R&D on Human Biospecimen Integrity"

Four research contracts have been awarded to develop innovative approaches to the control, monitoring and assessment of biospecimen quality:

University of California, San Francisco
PI Katherine Williams, PhD
"Credentialing Plasma and Serum Biospecimen Banks for Proteomics Analysis"

Yale University School of Medicine
PI David L. Rimm, MD PhD
"Intrinsic Controls for Formalin Fixed, Paraffin Embedded Tissue"

MD Anderson
PI W. Fraser Symmans, MD
"Effects of Biospecimen Integrity, Intratumoral Heterogeneity, and Analytical Variance on Microarray-based Pharmacogenomic Tests of Breast Cancer"

PPD
PI Chris Becker, PhD
"Investigations into the Effects of Blood Specimen Handling Procedures on Protein Integrity"