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ISBER 2012 Annual Meeting & Exhibits
Westin Bayshore Hotel
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
May 15-18, 2012
ISBER Working Groups:
Biospecimen Science
Biospecimens stored in biorepositories are intended to be used for biomarker identification and validation. The performance of such biomarkers greatly depends on the pre-analytical variations of the samples having been used for its initial identification. Quality Assurance on this issue is therefore of the outmost importance and allows us to establish the right correspondence between processing methods and end-use biomarkers. Interaction with OBBR and related FP7 initiatives should be ensured, in order to avoid duplication of efforts and for the sake of consistency.
Issues
1. Selection of biospecimen quality assurance schemes
2. Identification of biospecimen handling critical points
3. Adaptation to downstream analysis formats
Outcomes
Edition of an annex to the next edition of ISBER Best Practices on Biospecimen Preanalytics for Biorepositories.
Papers:
ISBER Biospecimen Science Working Group Literature Compilation
ISBER Biospecimen Science Working Group Literature Compilation Acknowledgements
From Biospecimen Logistics to Biospecimen Science
The ISBER Biospecimen Science Working Group published the following papers in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention:
• Human Biospecimen Research: Experimental Protocol and Quality Control Tools
Fotini Betsou, Rebecca Barnes, Thomas Burke, Domenico Coppola, Yvonne DeSouza, James Eliason, Barbara Glazer, David Horsfall, Cynthia Kleeberger, Sylvain Lehmann, Anil Prasad, Amy Skubitz, Stella Somiari, Elaine Gunter, and [International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) Working Group on Biospecimen Science
Betsou et al. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev.2009; 18: 1017-1025
• Standard Preanalytical Coding for Biospecimens: Defining the Sample PREanalytical Code (SPREC)
Fotini Betsou, Sylvain Lehmann, Garry Ashton, Michael Barnes, Erica E. Benson, Domenico Coppola, Yvonne DeSouza, James Eliason, Barbara Glazer, Fiorella Guadagni, Keith Harding, David J. Horsfall, Cynthia Kleeberger, Umberto Nanni, Anil Prasad, Kathi Shea, Amy Skubitz, Stella Somiari, Elaine Gunter, and International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories (ISBER) Working Group on Biospecimen Science
Betsou et al. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2010 Apr;19(4):1004-11. Epub 2010 Mar 23