R27: Efforts should be made to increase the awareness of the pathology community that (1) participating in research through tissue banking is part of their professional duties; (2) tissue banking is an instrument for managing the evolution of pathology work towards integration of biomarker analysis in clinical practice.

R28: Pathologists should be involved as scientists in developing the design of studies using banked specimens and in interpreting their results.

R29: The scientific involvement of pathologists should be acknowledged in publication authorship. This involvement may consist of specific diagnostic procedures and annotations at the time of specimen acquisition and/or pathology review before specimen processing for specific research purposes.

R30: Contributing to tissue banking should not compete with the performance of clinical pathology duties; therefore, sufficient time and resources should be committed by institutions to the performance of tissue-banking activities.

R31: In developing research on banked specimens, researchers should take into account the costs of the tissue-banking operation and should include these costs in grant applications.