Imperial College Healthcare Tissue & Biobank (2022)

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  312147

• Research summary

  Imperial College Healthcare Tissue & Biobank

• REC name

  Wales REC 3

• REC reference

  22/WA/0214

• Date of REC Opinion

  19 Jul 2022

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  Patients attending Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust for a procedure will be approached to ask for their consent to donate samples to the Tissue Bank. Some patients attending clinics in St Marks Hospital (part of London North West Healthcare NHS Trust) and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Trust will also be approached to consent for biological sample donation. Consent is taken either by fully trained consenting staff or clinical staff with duty of care.

  Samples are stored at HTA registered locations on Imperial College Healthcare Trusts constituent hospitals (Hammersmith, Charing Cross, St Mary's), Imperial College London's South Kensington and White City campuses, St Marks hospital a Chelsea and Westminster hospital.

• Research programme

  The Imperial College Healthcare Tissue Bank supports academic research on the disorders or function of the human body from within Imperial College and its associated NHS Trusts, as well as external academic, private and public sector researchers worldwide. All researchers must submit a formal project application for access to materials via the Imperial College Healthcare Tissue Bank's Tissue Management Committee who will review the proposal. Samples can only be released to projects approved in this manner. Further information can be found on the Tissue Bank's webpage www.imperial.ac.uk/imperial-college-healthcare-tissue-bank/

• Storage license

  12275

• RTBTitle

  Imperial College Healthcare Tissue & Biobank

• Establishment organisation

  Imperial College Healthcare Tissue & Biobank

• Establishment organisation address

  Room 11L04

  Charing Cross Hospital

  Fulham Palace Road, London

  W6 8RF