The Research Tissue Bank, Huntingdon Life Sciences
Research type
Research Tissue Bank
IRAS ID
131489
Contact name
Joanne Mitchell
Contact email
Research summary
The Research Tissue Bank, Huntingdon Life Sciences
REC name
East of England - Cambridge Central Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
13/EE/0395
Date of REC Opinion
18 Nov 2013
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion
Data collection arrangements
A wide range of anonymised diseased and normal human tissue samples with an associated minimal data set will be sourced from organisations within the UK that are ethically approved to obtain such samples. Where samples are to be imported from outside the UK, documentation will be obtained from those organisations to show that the tissues have been sourced within the terms of the local legal and regulatory requirements and that these broadly match the UK requirements particularly with respect to informed consent. As a general rule the types and amounts of tissue that will be obtained for the Research Tissue Bank, HLS will be dictated by the requirements of a specific research study.
Research programme
Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) is one of the worlds' leading Contract Research Organisation (CRO). HLS provides non-clinical and clinical safety evaluation research services for new chemical entities(NCE) and new biologic entities (NBE) to the worlds' leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agrochemical and industrial chemical companies. The services offered by HLS are designed to meet the regulatory requirements of governments around the world and are an indispensable part of safely developing new drugs to manage and improve human health and wellbeing. To this end HLS needs to acquire ethically sourced human tissue samples to support a broad range of scientific research procedures throughout the company. The research community that HLS supports is therefore world-wide.
Storage license
12400
RTBTitle
The Research Tissue Bank, Huntingdon Life Sciences
Establishment organisation
Huntingdon Life Sciences
Establishment organisation address
Woolley Road, Alconbury
Huntingdon
Cambridgeshire
PE28 4HS