Archival Gastro-intestinal tissue, blood, saliva and urine collection

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  326039

• Research summary

  Archival gastro-intestinal tissue, blood, saliva and urine collection

• REC name

  East of England - Cambridge Central Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  23/EE/0093

• Date of REC Opinion

  28 Jun 2023

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  The biobank will be situated in the Department of Pathology at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Within the department there are dedicated -80C freezers and locked ambient store rooms where biobank specimens will be stored. All patient data will be kept on a bespoke, secure database, access will be restricted to key researchers.

• Research programme

  The collaboration of clinicians and scientists from Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, The University of Central Lancashire and Lancaster University have an active work programme developing new technologies in detection and characterising cancers. The group are developing spectroscopy and are also using biophysical techniques to identify stem cells in tissue so that potential therapies might be targeted at cellular level. Medical research fellows and PhD students from the institutions may apply for access to tissues from the biobank supported by their senior clinical and scientific supervisors.

• Storage license

  12056

• RTBTitle

  Archival gastro-intestinal tissue, blood, saliva and urine collection

• Establishment organisation

  Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

• Establishment organisation address

  Royal Preston Hospital, Sharoe Green Lane

  Fulwood

  Preston

  PR2 9HT