Lothian NRS Human Annotated Bioresource

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  165488

• Research summary

  Lothian NRS Human Annotated Bioresource

• REC name

  East of Scotland Research Ethics Service REC 1

• REC reference

  15/ES/0094

• Date of REC Opinion

  14 Jul 2015

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  This Tissue Bank is based in NHS Lothian and works closely with the University of Edinburgh. The material is stored at various sites within NHS Lothian and the University of Edinburgh.
  The Tissue Bank supports a wide range of research involving disorders of the human body.
  The material collected is from living donors and consists of residual or waste tissues that are surplus to diagnostic requirements or have been removed for therapeutic reasons and would normally be disposed of.
  Tissue and tissue derivatives are stored either snap frozen or as paraffin embedded wax blocks. The collection of paraffin embedded tissue samples include material in the histopathology diagnostic archive.
  The type of data linked to the samples depends on the research project but normally includes patient demographics and diagnosis. The data is derived from health records and is held on secure databases..

• Research programme

  There is a wide range of diseased and non diseased tissue collected for research. The research interests are varied and include studies on kidney disease, breast cancer, sarcoma, ovarian cancer, rhematoid arthritis, upper and lower gastro-intestinal conditions , lymphoid diseases, infectious diseases, reproductive conditions and neurological conditions. The Tissue Bank welcomes applications from all types of orrganisations including clinical, academic and commercial sources. The fields of research supported include translational research, genetics, genomics, proteomics, molecular pathology, biomedical sciences, cell culture and toxicology.

• Storage license

  N/A

• RTBTitle

  Lothian NRS Human Annotated Bioresource

• Establishment organisation

  NHS Lothian

• Establishment organisation address

  Waverley Gate

  2 - 4 Waterloo Place

  Edinburgh

  EH1 3EG