Wednesday, June 27, 2007

W.U. wins right to keep cancer research samples

From St. Louis Post, Robert Patrick, June 21, 2007.

A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Court of Appeals in St. Louis upheld U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh's ruling last year that thousands of "genito-urinary" samples donated to Washington University's GU Biorepository could not be transferred. ...........
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Dr. Larry Shapiro, dean of the Washington University School of Medicine, said the decision was of "national import," and would allow other institutions to move forward with creating their own repositories. The American Cancer Society and a number of universities had filed legal briefs in support.

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