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CARE Panel: Ethical Challenges in the Use of Biospecimens and Biorepositories

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October 17, 2022
12:00PM - 1:00PM
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Add to Calendar 2022-10-17 12:00:00 2022-10-17 13:00:00 CARE Panel: Ethical Challenges in the Use of Biospecimens and Biorepositories About CARE CARE events promote multidisciplinary and exploratory discussion of cutting-edge issues in the field of research ethics. In doing so, it aims to advance Ohio State’s shared values and build a community around the topic of research integrity. This panel brings together researchers and experts to address the following: Biobanking has become routine in healthcare and an invaluable resource for research. However, on a global scale, governance mechanisms are sometimes inconsistent or even missing. The complexity and breadth of biobanking practices generate risks, benefits, and responsibilities that go beyond issues related to informed consent. This panel will bring together biobank directors and ethicists to foster a cross-national conversation about the ethical and cultural significance of the collection of biospecimens for research. Panelists Paulina Onvomaha Tindana, PhD (Senior Lecturer, Department of Health Policy, Planning, and Management, University of Ghana) Dr. Paulina Tindana's teaching and research focus on the ethical, social, cultural and policy issues in public health, global health research and health systems research. With academic training in bioethics, she has published extensively on bioethics and research ethics topics, particularly the practical ethical issues arising in genetic/genomic research and biobanking in Africa. She has contributed to several international and Consortia ethics guidelines and reports including the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Report. She has also facilitated training workshops on global health ethics and community engagement and mentored several masters and PhD students to undertake research on health policy, health systems, monitoring and evaluation and research ethics related topics. Joseph Yracheta, MS (Executive Director, Native BioData Consortium) Joseph Yracheta has masters in Pharmacogenomics from University of Washington and is currently a DrPH candidate in Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. Joseph serves as Executive Director and laboratory manager of Native BioData Consortium (NBDC), which is comprised of Indigenous scientific and bioethics experts in latest scientific techniques and administration functions. Furthermore, the samples will be stored on sovereign Native American land, on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, which will provide additional protections for the participants’ samples from exploitation. Erica Bell, PhD (Executive Director, Neuroscience Research Institute OSU and Director, NRI Brain Bank and Biorepository)  Dr. Erica Bell oversees the biorepository and biomarker efforts for neurological diseases in addition to developing educational, career development, and mentorship programs for junior faculty and trainees. Dr. Bell has been an Associate Professor in the College of Medicine since 2018 and a faculty member within the Translational Therapeutic program in the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Ohio State since 2010, and has played a critical role in overseeing multiple projects approved by the NCI-Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP) to examine biomarker endpoints on clinical trials. Dr. Bell’s work has been funded by numerous national foundation grants and has been published in high-impact journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA Oncology, Journal of Clinical Oncology, and Neuro-oncology. She is a co-inventor on a federal biomarker patent and a grant reviewer for both the AACR and the Department of Defense.  Nancy Single, PhD (Director, Clinical Research Operations at the OSUCCC-James)  Dr. Nancy Single is a member of the executive leadership of the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center and oversees Biospecimen Services Shared Resource (BSSR), whose aim is to support cutting-edge translational research to advance the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Register Now For more information on the CARE program, please visit our website .   Online Center for Ethics and Human Values cehv@osu.edu America/New_York public

About CARE

CARE events promote multidisciplinary and exploratory discussion of cutting-edge issues in the field of research ethics. In doing so, it aims to advance Ohio State’s shared values and build a community around the topic of research integrity.

This panel brings together researchers and experts to address the following:

Biobanking has become routine in healthcare and an invaluable resource for research. However, on a global scale, governance mechanisms are sometimes inconsistent or even missing. The complexity and breadth of biobanking practices generate risks, benefits, and responsibilities that go beyond issues related to informed consent. This panel will bring together biobank directors and ethicists to foster a cross-national conversation about the ethical and cultural significance of the collection of biospecimens for research.

Panelists

Paulina Onvomaha Tindana, PhD (Senior Lecturer, Department of Health Policy, Planning, and Management, University of Ghana)

Paulina Onvomaha Tindana

Dr. Paulina Tindana's teaching and research focus on the ethical, social, cultural and policy issues in public health, global health research and health systems research. With academic training in bioethics, she has published extensively on bioethics and research ethics topics, particularly the practical ethical issues arising in genetic/genomic research and biobanking in Africa. She has contributed to several international and Consortia ethics guidelines and reports including the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Report. She has also facilitated training workshops on global health ethics and community engagement and mentored several masters and PhD students to undertake research on health policy, health systems, monitoring and evaluation and research ethics related topics.

Joseph Yracheta, MS (Executive Director, Native BioData Consortium)

Joseph Yracheta

Joseph Yracheta has masters in Pharmacogenomics from University of Washington and is currently a DrPH candidate in Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University. Joseph serves as Executive Director and laboratory manager of Native BioData Consortium (NBDC), which is comprised of Indigenous scientific and bioethics experts in latest scientific techniques and administration functions. Furthermore, the samples will be stored on sovereign Native American land, on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, which will provide additional protections for the participants’ samples from exploitation.

Erica Bell, PhD (Executive Director, Neuroscience Research Institute OSU and Director, NRI Brain Bank and Biorepository)

Erica Bell

 Dr. Erica Bell oversees the biorepository and biomarker efforts for neurological diseases in addition to developing educational, career development, and mentorship programs for junior faculty and trainees. Dr. Bell has been an Associate Professor in the College of Medicine since 2018 and a faculty member within the Translational Therapeutic program in the Comprehensive Cancer Center at Ohio State since 2010, and has played a critical role in overseeing multiple projects approved by the NCI-Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP) to examine biomarker endpoints on clinical trials. Dr. Bell’s work has been funded by numerous national foundation grants and has been published in high-impact journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA Oncology, Journal of Clinical Oncology, and Neuro-oncology. She is a co-inventor on a federal biomarker patent and a grant reviewer for both the AACR and the Department of Defense. 

Nancy Single, PhD (Director, Clinical Research Operations at the OSUCCC-James) 

Nancy Single

Dr. Nancy Single is a member of the executive leadership of the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center and oversees Biospecimen Services Shared Resource (BSSR), whose aim is to support cutting-edge translational research to advance the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Register Now

For more information on the CARE program, please visit our website .

 

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