Edinburgh Brain Bank

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  298880

• Research summary

  Edinburgh Brain Bank

• REC name

  East of Scotland Research Ethics Service REC 1

• REC reference

  21/ES/0087

• Date of REC Opinion

  20 Sep 2021

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  The Edinburgh Brain Bank will store and release brain samples from well defined clinical cohorts and controls, and also blood and CSF samples for biomarker studies. All tissues will be retrieved from fully consented post-mortem examinations, usually limited to the nervous system only. Post-mortem NHS hospital consent will be achieved for all non-procurator Fiscal examinations, and signed informed consent from relatives where a Procurator Fiscal instructed examination is required.

• Research programme

  The brain bank supports local, national and international research, and has over the pervious 15 years supported in excess of 500 translational research studies across the world, providing tens of thousands of samples and supporting multiple highly cited peer-reviewed research publications. A majority of the research groups are within the neuroscience community, particularly neurodegenerative disorders, but we do support other research groups such as cardiac research groups. We were able to support COVID19 related tissue studies during the early phases of the pandemic.

• RTBTitle

  Edinburgh Brain Bank

• Establishment organisation

  NHS Lothian

• Establishment organisation address

  Public Health Office

  Waverley Gate

  2-4 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh

  EH1 3EG