Third Thursdays with the ICTR

Third Thursdays with the ICTR

Join the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical & Translational Research at 2 pm Thursday, November 20 for its next Third Thursdays with the ICTR lecture to learn about OpenSpecimen. OpenSpecimen is a biospecimen information management system that serves as a scalable solution for biorepositories and also meets the needs of a broad group of investigators and biobanks. OpenSpecimen:

• enables annotation of research and clinical data, specimen and derivative tracking, event monitoring, and Epic-enabled patient lookup
• provides a scalable solution for managing biospecimen metadata
• is recognized as a Tier A best practice by the Data Trust’s Research Sub-council for storing biospecimen metadata, including PHI

Speaker Bob Lange, Project Leader for the ICTR Informatics Core will provide a high-level overview of OpenSpecimen functionality and show real-world examples of OpenSpecimen workflows used at Johns Hopkins. Audience: Faculty, Staff Date/Time: Thursday, November 20, 2025 (02:00 pm - 03:00 pm) Location: Zoom