ISBER 2008 Annual Meeting & Exhibits
“ISBER is the leading international forum that addresses the technical, legal, ethical, and managerial issues relevant to repositories of biological and environmental specimens.”
- Location: Bethesda, MD
- Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2008
- Title: RIN2 Biobanking: Accurate, Compliant and Efficient Management for Today's Biorepository http://www.isber.org/mtgs/2008/agenda.html
InforSense User Group Meeting
“InforSense provides a suite of highly agile, predictive and visual enterprise business intelligence and reporting software.”
- Location: Boston, MA
- Date: May 2, 2008
- Title: Case Study: Biobanking – Enabling Translational Research http://www.inforsense.com/company/translational_research_
symposium/agenda/
BIO-IT World Congress
- Location: Boston, MA
- Date: April 29, 2008
- Title: Leveraging Biorepositories and Correlative Clinical Data to Drive Translational Medicine
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Date: June 18, 2008
- Title: Biobanking and Sample Management Systems in the Nonprofit Sector http://www.diahome.org/product/11362/07001.pdf
Effect of tissue shipping on plasma cell isolation, viability, and RNA integrity in the context of a centralized good laboratory practice-certified tissue banking facility.
Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium Biobanking Solution Enabling Collaborative Research http://www.labvantage.com/newsevents/events/2006/biobanking/mmrc.html
“LabVantage Solutions, Inc., is an innovative global provider of enterprise solutions tailored for leading laboratories. We serve discovery, development, formulation, process research, raw materials testing, and quality management laboratories across multiple industries.”
Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Custodianship and Ownership Issues in Biospecimen Research
Symposium – Workshop Participant
October 4-5, 2007
Chair Lori B. Andrews, J.D.
RFP S05-143 Biospecimen Core Resource (BCR) Solicitation
Evaluator
May 2006
FasterCures. (2008). FasterCures – The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions. Retrieved July 8, 2008, from http://www.fastercures.org/
“FasterCures is dedicated to saving lives by saving time. Our mission is to identify and implement global solutions to accelerate the process of discovery and clinical development of new therapies for the treatment of deadly and debilitating diseases.”
Greely, H. (2007) The Uneasy Ethical and Legal Underpinnings of Large-Scale Genomic Biobanks. Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, (8), 343-64.
National Cancer Institute. (2007). Best Practices for Biospecimen Resources.
“Over the past several years, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has undertaken an intensive due diligence process to understand the state of its funded biospecimen resources and the quality of biospecimens used in cancer research.”
Andrews, L. (2006). Who Owns Your Body?: A Patient’s Perspective on Washington University v. Catalona. 34 Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 398-406.
Auray-Blais, C & Patenaude, J. (2006). A biobank management model applicable to biomedical research. BMC Medical Ethics. 7 (4).
“The proposed model includes the following: 1) a means of protecting the information in biobanks, 2) offers ways to provide follow-up information requested about the participants, 3) protects the participant's confidentiality and 4) adequately deals with the ethical issues at stake in biobanking.”
Hakimian, R & Korn, D. (2004). Ownership and Use of Tissue Specimens for Research. Journal of the American Medical Association, 292, (20).
Bereano, P. (1999). The National Bioethics Advisory Commission Report on the Use of Human Biological materials and Research: Ethical Issues and Policy Guidelines. 18 Biotechology Law Report 322, (4).
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