Cardiff University Biobank

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  321237

• Research summary

  Cardiff University Biobank

• REC name

  Wales REC 3

• REC reference

  23/WA/0073

• Date of REC Opinion

  15 Mar 2023

• 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.

  Samples 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 are mostly 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 are also able to be supplied to projects for some collections on request where possible. Samples are stored and managed by Cardiff University on the University Hospital of Wales site.

• Research programme

  CUB supports 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.

• Storage license

  12422

• RTBTitle

  Cardiff University Biobank

• Establishment organisation

  Cardiff University

• Establishment organisation address

  School of Biosciences

  Museum Avenue

  Cardiff

  CF103AX