Sera Laboratories Biobank

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  341568

• Research summary

  Sera Laboratories BioBank

• REC name

  West of Scotland REC 4

• REC reference

  24/WS/0140

• Date of REC Opinion

  11 Dec 2024

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  Sera Laboratories collects human tissue and biofluids from consenting donors for research purposes. Samples are collected prospectively to researchers specific requirements at approved collaborating sites. The majority of samples will be transported directly from the collection site to the researchers. Any samples which are stored will be held at our HTA licensed storage facility in Burgess Hill. Requests for stored samples will undergo the same tissue access approval process as those for prospective collections.
  Healthy volunteers and donors with a range of conditions including but not limited to: haematological diseases and

• Research programme

  Sera Laboratories distributes human samples to both commercial and non-commercial researchers who's research requires human tissue and biofluid samples in order to advance the following areas of biomedicine: pre-clinical drug discovery and development diagnostics biomarker research for evaluating drug efficacy and toxicology translational medicine xenograft models

• Storage license

  12699

• RTBTitle

  Sera Laboratories BioBank

• Establishment organisation

  Sera Laboratories International Ltd t/a BioIVT

• Establishment organisation address

  Unit 2, Site J

  15 Albert Drive

  Burgess Hill, West Sussex

  RH15 9TN