High-Quality Human Biospecimens: The Key to Molecular Medicine
Add an upcoming event to your calendar.The NIH interest group "Biospecimens" is sponsored by: The Office of Rare Diseases Research (ORDR,OD/NIH), Yaffa Rubinstein, and the Office of Biorepositories and Biospecimens Research (OBBR,OD/NCI), John Gillespie.
One of the major goals of the Biospecimens Interest Group is to promote and facilitate interaction between intramural and extramural scientists who are interested and involved in a variety of clinically-oriented research projects using biospecimens. We intend to use this interest group as a forum where investigators can get together to exchange scientific data, ideas and information, using biospecimens for research and validation of assays and technologies development.
In addition, this forum will be used to discuss ways to access high-quality biospecimens and better harmonize and standardize procedures and SOPs for collecting, handling, and storing samples to ensure maximum reproducibility of outcome, while protecting the privacy of the patients (donors) and adhering to the ethical and legal requirements associated with the use of biospecimens.
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