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Elisa Eiseman, Ph.D.
Senior Natural Scientist
RAND Infrastructure,
Safety, and Environment

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Read Dr. Eiseman’s Guest Essay: “Availability and Quality of Human Biospecimens for Use in Biomedical Research”

Martin Ferguson, Ph.D.
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Consultant

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Read Dr. Ferguson’s Guest Essay: “The Importance of Data Standards to Biospecimen Collection”

Diane Balma, J.D.
Director of Public Policy
The Susan G. Komen Breast
Cancer Foundation
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Read Diane Balma’s Guest Essay: “Years After Surgery, a Patient’s Search for Her Specimen”

Kathi E. Hanna, M.S., Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Section Head, Scientific
Reports and Proceedings
Styllus, LLC
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Read Dr. Hanna’s Guest Essay: “Blanket Consent to Biobanking: Whose Choice is it Anyway?”

Anna D. Barker, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, Advanced Technologies
and Strategic Partnerships
National Cancer Institute
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Read Dr. Barker’s Guest Essay: “Biospecimens: The Bridge to Personalized Medicine”

Paula Kim
Founder and CEO
Translating Research Across Communities (TRAC)

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Read “Issues in Biobanking for Research”

Alicia Sable-Hunt, MBA, RN
Program Manager
Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium

Read Alicia Sable-Hunt’s bio
Read a case study on tissue banking by the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium