Brochures

The following brochures and fact sheets are designed to provide a better understanding of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research (OBBR) and its initiatives.

NCI OBBR: Setting the Standards and Creating the Infrastructure for High Quality Biospecimens - Learn more about the importance of biospecimens in cancer research and the NCI OBBR's mission to ensure biospecimen quality.

Biospecimen Basics - This easy-to-read fact sheet defines the role of biospecimens in cancer research and provides an overview of the NCI Best Practices for Biospecimen Resources.

NCI Best Practices for Biospecimen Resources - The NCI OBBR created these Best Practices to provide salient guiding principles that define state-of-the-science biospecimen resource practices.

Biospecimen Research Network Fact Sheet - This fact sheet provides information about the Biospecimen Research Network created to coordinate and support systematic investigation into how collection, processing and storage processes affect biospecimen integrity.