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Last Updated: 05/10/23

News and Events

Events

Date Title
March 2022 Biobanking for Precision Medicine Seminar Series: Dr. Nilsa Ramirez, Dr. Scott Jewell and Dr. Shannon J. McCall
February 2022 Biobanking for Precision Medicine Seminar Series: Dr. Shannon J. McCall
February 2022 Maximizing the Research Use of Small Biopsy Tissue: Symposium Presented by NCI’s Cancer Moonshot Biobank
June 2021 Cancer Moonshot Biobank Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Mini-Symposium
May 2021 Biobanking for Precision Medicine Seminar Series: Dr. Craig Shriver and Dr. Justin Wells
March 2021 Biobanking for Precision Medicine Seminar Series: Dr. Helen Morrin
November 2020 Biobanking for Precision Medicine Seminar Series: Dr. Peter Watson

News

Date Title
May 2023 New NCI Biospecimen Evidence-based Practices (BEBP) document: blood collection and processing for miRNA analysis!
May 2023 To date, the BRD SOP Library has had 1.2 million downloads
September 2022 A new publication from the BPV Program on effects of delay to fixation and time in fixative on aCGH profiles is now available
January 2022 To date, the BRD SOP Library has had 874,087 downloads
October 2021 Re-issued FOA PAR 22-049 Integrating Biospecimen Science Approaches into Clinical Assay Development
May 2021 A NCI BPV Program publication was the May 2021 Editor's Choice Article
August 2020 FOA PAR 18-947 Integrating Biospecimen Science Approaches into Clinical Assay Development
April 2020 Please take a short survey on the BRD's SOP Library
March 2020 New BEBP on cfDNA is Now Available
April 2019 New publications from the NCI BPV program
April 2019 2019 submission dates for PAR-18-947 Integrating Biospecimen Science Approaches into Clinical Assay Development: March 14, 2019; July 11, 2019; November 7, 2019.
January 2019 New funding opportunities: Cancer Moonshot Biobank
October 2018 GTEx biospecimens available on the GTEx Portal
September 2018 BBRB in planning stages for the Cancer Moonshot Biobank project
August 2018 New Biospecimen Evidence-Based Practices document available
August 2017 Guiding Principles for Cancer Moonshot℠ Biobanking Activities
December 2015 New Funding Opportunity for GTEx Biospecimen Management
July 2015 New Collaboration Opportunity: A Secure, Web-Based Biorepository Database
March 2015 Register Now for the Genotype Tissue Expression Symposium, May 20-21, 2015
December 2014 New Publication on Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Tissue
September 2014 New Version of Biospecimen Research Database Available!
July 2014 GTEx Biospecimens Access Policy now available
May 2014 Educational Brochure on Biospecimen Donation Available
February 2014 A Survey on the Financial Sustainability of Biobanking
November 2013 Genotype Tissue Expression Project (GTEx) Biospecimens Access Policy now available
July 2013 BBRB Think Tank on the Identifiability of Biospecimens and “-Omic” Data Summary Now Available!
September 2012 GTEx Project Feature in NCI Cancer Bulletin
June 2012 Public Release of caHUB Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
January 2012 Report for BBRB Hosted Workshop on Biospecimen Reference Sets and Drug-Diagnostic Codevelopment Now Available
December 2011 Collaboration Opportunities with the Cancer Human Biobank (caHUB) at NCI
October 2011 NCI caHUB and the Critical Path Institute [501(c)3] establish a collaborative agreement to perform biospecimen research.
October 2010 NCI Cancer Human Biobank to Lead Biospecimen Accrual for NIH GTEx Project