BIORESOURCE BASED STUDIES OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM IN CHILDREN & ADULTS

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  147635

• Research summary

  Bioresource based studies of the digestive system in children and adults

• REC name

  London - Bromley Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  15/LO/2127

• Date of REC Opinion

  8 Feb 2016

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  Samples and data as detailed in the patient information sheet and agreed by the subjects and/or carers at the time of the consent. Most will only happen at the time of planned visits to the department and wil not required extra visits for subjects.

  Can include surgical resection materials, blood, DNA, urine, faeces, buccal swabs, liver biopsies, skin biopsies, other materials collected at the time of clinically necessary procedures (duodenal aspirates, ascitic taps). For non invasive waste materials or minimally invasive specimens (blood, buccal swabs) these can be collected (with the patients consent) at any time and do not have to be clinically required procedures.

  Almost specimens will be allocated immediately and used or temporarily stored for specific projects as approved by the steering committee. Only a small number of specimens (such as surgical resection materials) will be stored for future unspecified studies under the HTA licence.

• Research programme

  This bioresource will support all studies related to subjects with digestive diseases being performed by researchers from Barts and the London Queen Marys School of Medicine and Barts Health NHS Trust including adult and paediatric gastroenterology (IBD, neurogastroenterology (reflux, constipation), coeliac disease, GI cancer), adult GI surgery, adult and paediatric hepatology and tropical gastroenterology. This can extend to other clinical centres where collaborations have been established and agreed by the steering committee and there are the relevant local approvals (eg other NHS Trusts).

• Storage license

  12199

• RTBTitle

  Bioresource based studies of the digestive system in children and adults