Cardiff University Biobank

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  214760

• Research summary

  Cardiff University Biobank

• REC name

  Wales REC 3

• REC reference

  18/WA/0089

• Date of REC Opinion

  9 Mar 2018

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  The Cardiff University Biobank (CUB) is a generic biobank that collects samples from a broad range of disease areas and from healthy volunteers. Samples are annotated with demographic and clinical data, including data specific to the disease area, primary care data from the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage database and health information from healthy volunteers. \n\nSamples collected may include, but are not limited to, tissue (including biopsies, skin, organs, bones etc), blood, urine, saliva, faeces, tears, breast milk, teeth, products of conception (including foetuses and placenta), cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), swabs, bone marrow, fluid aspirates. Samples will mostly be stored in a preserved form (frozen, fixed or paraffin embedded) and kept in long term storage (ultra-low temperature freezers, room temperature, Liquid nitrogen). Fresh samples will also be supplied to projects on request where possible. \n\nSamples will be stored and managed by Cardiff University on the University Hospital of Wales site.\n\n\n\n \n\n

• Research programme

  The CUB will support research that is for patient and public benefit. This could be basic or translational research including DNA analysis, animal research and commercial research. Samples will not be provided for use in tobacco research that is not related to patient benefit, cosmetic and consumer product testing, therapeutic cloning or human application. [COVID-19 amendment 05/05/2020] This amendment is to allow: • adult patient and external healthy volunteer donors to be consented over the telephone in conjunction with signed consent provided via post\n• sputum to be collected as a non routine sample\nThe collection of sputum as a non-routine sample will initially be used for a COVID-19 collection although could be utilised for other patient collections where the donor can produce sputum.

• Storage license

  12422

• RTBTitle

  Cardiff University Biobank

• Establishment organisation

  Cardiff University

• Establishment organisation address

  Park Place

  Cardiff

  CF10 3AT