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Goals and Objectives

The goal of the RAND project is to facilitate research leading to treatments and cures for rare diseases, as well as more common diseases, by improving researchers' access to needed human biospecimens by providing a system that enables them to access information about biorepositories and their collections via a comprehensive, searchable database that is accessible via a Web browser.

Objectives

1. Create a publicly available, searchable, Web-based database of biorepositories that collect, store, and distribute human biospecimens for research use.
2. Facilitate researchers' access to human biospecimens for use in research by providing a system that enables them to access information about repositories and their collections.
3. Identify unmet needs of researchers in obtaining human biospecimens for research on rare diseases.
4. Provide information to researchers, the wider research community and other interested parties about the types and locations of human biorepositories and the human biospecimens available for research purposes