Bloodwise Childhood Leukaemia Cellbank ethics renewal

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  209791

• Research summary

  Bloodwise Childhood Leukaemia Cellbank

• REC name

  South West - Central Bristol Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  16/SW/0219

• Date of REC Opinion

  10 Oct 2016

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  Samples of bone marrow, blood and spinal fluid taken from patients being investigated for possible blood cancers are stored at UK Biocentre. Patients are consented for this during their diagnostic workup by their clinical team.

• Research programme

  Research into childhood and young adult blood cancers, in particular leukaemias. These are rare disoders and these samples are invaluable to making progress in these disorders.

• Storage license

  12002

• RTBTitle

  Bloodwise Childhood Leukaemia Cellbank

• Establishment organisation

  Leukaemia Subgroup of the NCRI Children's Study Group

• Establishment organisation address

  c/o Professor Ajay Vora

  Sheffield Children's Hospital

  Western Bank, Sheffield

  S10 2TH