Workshop Summaries

Overview

As part of its mission, the BBRB has sponsored numerous workshops and events to educate and engage the cancer research and advocacy community on issues pertaining to human biospecimens and biobanking operations nationally and internationally. Past events have included the Biospecimen Research Network (BRN ) Symposium and the Biospecimen Best Practices Forum. Below are workshop summaries for these and other events sponsored by BBRB:

• 2018 Workshop on Clinical Trials and Social Media
• 2015 Genotype Tissue Expression (GTEx) Symposium: All Things Considered
• 2012 BBRB Think Tank on the Identifiability of Biospecimens and "-Omic" Data
• 2011 Workshop on Biospecimen Reference Sets and Drug-Diagnostic Co-development (PDF)
• 2010 Biospecimen Quality Assessment and Standards Development Workshop
• 2010 Release of Research Results to Participants in Biospecimen Studies
• 2008 The Ethical Use of Pediatric Biospecimens in Research
• 2007 Custodianship and Ownership Issues
• 2005 International Biorepositories Symposium