Biological Specimen Banks

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "That's a good question": university researchers' views on ownership and retention of human genetic specimens. 
  • A Guide for a Cardiovascular Genomics Biorepository: the CATHGEN Experience. 
  • A Plan for Academic Biobank Solvency-Leveraging Resources and Applying Business Processes to Improve Sustainability. 
  • A call to standardize preanalytic data elements for biospecimens. 
  • A trade secret model for genomic biobanking. 
  • Advancing Diagnostics to Address Antibacterial Resistance: The Diagnostics and Devices Committee of the Antibacterial Resistance Leadership Group. 
  • Analysis of educational materials and destruction/opt-out initiatives for storage and use of residual newborn screening samples. 
  • Biomarker science: direction for the scientific community. 
  • Biospecimen Sharing Among Hispanic Women in a Safety-Net Clinic: Implications for the Precision Medicine Initiative. 
  • Centralized biorepositories for genetic and genomic research. 
  • Challenges in creating an opt-in biobank with a registrar-based consent process and a commercial EHR. 
  • Change in the Rate of Biological Aging in Response to Caloric Restriction: CALERIE Biobank Analysis. 
  • Characteristics associated with participation in DNA banking: The National Registry of Veterans with ALS. 
  • Clinical use of tissue bank material. 
  • Comprehensive genomic studies: emerging regulatory, strategic, and quality assurance challenges for biorepositories. 
  • Development of a contemporary globally diverse HIV viral panel by the EQAPOL program. 
  • Diabetic nephropathy: a national dialogue. 
  • Establishment and maintenance of a PBMC repository for functional cellular studies in support of clinical vaccine trials. 
  • Ethical, legal, and social implications of biobanks for genetics research. 
  • Genomics. Genomics, biobanks, and the trade-secret model. 
  • Human biospecimen research: experimental protocol and quality control tools. 
  • Impact of Specimen Heterogeneity on Biomarkers in Repository Samples from Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A SWOG Report. 
  • Implementation of Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP) guidelines within the External Quality Assurance Program Oversight Laboratory (EQAPOL). 
  • Improving biobank consent comprehension: a national randomized survey to assess the effect of a simplified form and review/retest intervention. 
  • Informed consent for biobanking: consensus-based guidelines for adequate comprehension. 
  • Informed consent for biorepositories: assessing prospective participants' understanding and opinions. 
  • Insulin gene patent litigation. 
  • Lessons from HeLa Cells: The Ethics and Policy of Biospecimens. 
  • Multilaboratory evaluation of screening methods for detection of high-level aminoglycoside resistance in enterococci. National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards Study Group on Enterococci. 
  • National Heart, Lung, And Blood Institute Clinical Proteomics Working Group report. 
  • National Lung Cancer Screening Trial American College of Radiology Imaging Network Specimen Biorepository originating from the Contemporary Screening for the Detection of Lung Cancer Trial (NLST, ACRIN 6654): design, intent, and availability of specimens for validation of lung cancer biomarkers. 
  • Organizational improvements to enhance modern clinical epidemiology. 
  • Population-based biobank participants' preferences for receiving genetic test results. 
  • Prospective biorepository participants' perspectives on access to research results. 
  • RePORT International: Advancing Tuberculosis Biomarker Research Through Global Collaboration. 
  • Simplifying informed consent for biorepositories: stakeholder perspectives. 
  • Stakeholder views on returning research results. 
  • The College of American Pathologists Biorepository Accreditation Program: Results from the First 5 Years. 
  • The U.S. Culture Collection Network Responding to the Requirements of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing. 
  • The challenges faced by living stock collections in the USA. 
  • US and Scottish health professionals' attitudes toward DNA biobanking. 
  • What Is Adequate Understanding? 
  • dictyBase, the model organism database for Dictyostelium discoideum. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Ferrari, Guido, Associate Professor of Surgery, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
  • Patz Jr., Edward F., James and Alice Chen Professor of Radiology, Pathology