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Bio-Banks As A Tissue And Information Semi-Commons: Balancing Interests For Personalized Medicine, Tissue Donors And The Public Health, Ken Gatter
Ken Gatter
Tissue biobanks are critical to realizing the promise of personalized medicine. Unlike tissue repositories of the past, biobanks combine tissue with clinical and tissue derived molecular information. They are searchable, organized data-rich entities that can make lending decisions to qualified researchers. Biobanks have a green light and are growing in number, size, complexity and investment money, but forge ahead with many ethical and legal issues unsettled. The current approach has excessive redundancy, overlap and waste because tissue is often collected for a single purpose and information proprietary.
This essay will examine the advantages and shortcomings of current law describing human …