The UCL BioResource version 1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The University College London (UCL) BioResource
IRAS ID
115955
Contact name
Nicholas Wood
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University College London
Research summary
The UCL BioResource will form part of the National NIHR BioResource. The NIHR Bioresource is a collaboration between five Biomedical Research Centres (UCL, Imperial, Kings/IoP, Oxford and Cambridge) and one Biomedical Research Unit (Leicester) to establish a federated database of healthy individuals and patients with neurological, cardiovascular, or infectious/inflammatory or immune disorders or with rare diseases, who are consented for recall for research on the basis of genotype or phenotype. The aim of the NIHR BioResource is to build on and integrate existing resources to promote recruitment of well genotyped and phenotypes participants into local studies co-ordinated through existing Clinical Research Facilities within NIHR Biomedical Research Units and Centres.
The UCL BioResource will contribute to this national endeavour through local recruitment of 10,000 patients and volunteers from UCL cohorts and affiliated hospitals. Samples will be collected, processed and stored at UCL-RFH Biobank and data will be curated and stored at UCL.
The UCL BioResource will be based on the model of the Cambridge BioResource (REC no: 04/Q108/44) and will employ similar protocols.
REC name
East of England - Cambridge Central Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
13/EE/0161
Date of REC Opinion
25 Jun 2013
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion