Why and how was the NCI Best Practices developed?
Over the past several years, the NCI has undertaken a due diligence process to understand the state of its funded biospecimen resources and the quality of biospecimens used in cancer research. As part of this effort, a 2004 inventory of NCI-supported biospecimen resources showed substantial heterogeneity in biospecimen resource management across NCI-supported resources. This study also revealed that NCI-supported biospecimen resources were not optimized in terms of operational, legal, and ethical policies, nor are they coordinated to provide a unique resource value. In 2005, the NCI took several actions to respond to these findings in the interest of ensuring sufficient biospecimens of documented quality to support NCI-sponsored research and the findings that guide the scientific policy of the NCI. The NCI published the First-Generation Guidelines in the Federal Register on April 28, 2006, and requested public comments on the document for a 60-day period. The comments received from ind
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- What is the NCI doing to promote sharing of biospecimens and their data by researchers as set forth in the NCI Best Practices?
- Are there resources for biospecimen managers who are interested in implementing the NCI Best Practices?
- What is a possible way to reduce the costs associated with implementing the NCI Best Practices?
