Workshop Summaries

Overview

The OBBR is dedicated to providing leadership for biobanking activities that support all types of cancer research funded by the NCI. This is being done through a comprehensive approach to standard-setting, biobanking science, and education with the aim of improving the quality of human biospecimens and biobanking operations nationally and internationally. As part of its mission, the OBBR routinely sponsors workshops and events to educate and engage the cancer research and advocacy community. For additional information, please also visit the BRN Symposium and the Biospecimen Best Practices Forum. Please view the "Workshop Summaries" items below for additional information.

• Custodianship and Ownership Issues
• International Biorepositories Symposium
• Biospecimen Economics Workshop
• The Ethical Use of Pediatric Biospecimens in Research
• Release of Research Results to Participants in Biospecimen Studies
• Biospecimen Quality Assessment and Standards Development Workshop
• Workshop on Biospecimen Reference Sets and Drug-Diagnostic Codevelopment (PDF)