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BBRB Staff

The Biorepositories and Biospecimen Research Branch has a dedicated team which is working diligently to execute the core focus areas of the office. The staff is comprised of Federal Employees, Contractors, and Fellows who are committed to fulfill the mission of the office: to facilitate cancer and biomedical research by improving the quality and consistency of human biospecimens through the development and deployment of standards that represent the state of the science for biospecimen collections.

The BBRB team is comprised of the following staff members. For bios, please click on the individual.

Name Title
Jim Vaught, Ph.D. Branch Chief
Lokesh Agrawal, Ph.D. Health Science Administrator
Joanne Peter Demchok, M.S. (ASCP) Health Scientist Administrator
Ping Guan, Ph.D. Health Scientist Administrator
Helen M. Moore, Ph.D. Program Manager
Chana Rabiner, Ph.D. Health Scientist Administrator
Deborah Robinson, AAS Program Assistant
Carol Weil, J.D. Senior Advisor for Ethical and Regulatory Affairs
B. Paige Bass, Ph.D.
(Contractor)
Curator for the Biospecimen Research Database
Philip A. Branton, M.D., FCAP
(Contractor)
Surgical Pathologist
Latarsha Carithers, Ph.D.
(Contractor)
Project Manager
Sharon D. Collins, MPA
(Contractor)
Operations Coordinator
Kelly Bonner Engel, Ph.D.
(Contractor)
Lead Curator for the Biospecimen Research Database
Benjamin Fombonne
(Contractor)
Scientific Program Analyst
Sarah Greytak, Ph.D.
(Contractor)
Curator for the Biospecimen Research Database

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