Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Biobank

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  304554

• Research summary

  Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Biobank

• REC name

  Wales REC 4

• REC reference

  21/WA/0334

• Date of REC Opinion

  8 Nov 2021

• REC opinion

  Unfavourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  The Royal Free UCL Biobank allows researchers to store human tissue samples for researcher purposes. The research will contribute to understanding disease , making new treatments and diagnostic tools. the samples may be from any clinical procedure that is not needed for diagnosis, and patients are always asked if they are happy for their samples to be collected and stored. Some of the samples may be stored for future, and as yet unknown research. All research which is carried out will be ethically approved by an independent ethical review baord.

• Research programme

  the researchers who use the samples range from internal academic researchers who use samples for research that has been funded by Charities, government funders and possibly industrial collaborators. Samples from clinical trials may use the biobank to store samples, when patients opt into a clinical trial, to run detailed analysis on how the new treatment (or placebo) is working. Commercial researchers may wish to store samples that is part of biomedical research into new drugs and diagnostic tools

• Storage license

  11016

• RTBTitle

  Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Biobank

• Establishment organisation

  RFL Bioank

• Establishment organisation address

  Institute of Immunity and Transplantation,

  Centre for Cell, Gene and Tissue Therapeutics

  Royal Free Hospital, Pond Street, London,

  NW3 2QG