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Harmonizing Global Biospecimen Consent Practices to Advance Translational Research: A Call to Action
Author(s) -
Warner AW,
Moore H,
Reinhard D,
Ball LA,
Knoppers BM
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.941
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1532-6535
pISSN - 0009-9236
DOI - 10.1002/cpt.461
Subject(s) - informed consent , biobank , call to action , translational research , translational medicine , action (physics) , biorepository , ethical standards , medical research , engineering ethics , medicine , alternative medicine , medical education , business , bioinformatics , pathology , engineering , biology , physics , marketing , quantum mechanics
One of the many challenges of translational medicine is working with research participants to donate biospecimens through an ethical informed consent framework. The increasingly complex ethical and regulatory differences across jurisdictions translates into limitations on use and potential value of biological specimens and their associated data in clinical research. We introduce a call to action for more uniform global standards for collection of biological specimen informed consent data to enable greater advancements in medical research.