Cambridge Brain Bank

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  279394

• Research summary

  Cambridge Brain Bank

• REC name

  East of England - Cambridge Central Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  20/EE/0283

• Date of REC Opinion

  18 Jan 2021

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  The tissue is stored in freezers,paraffin blocks and slide stores on the Addenbrookes campus or offsite storage in HTA licenced facilities. Data is stored on a password protected database stored on a CUH network drive.

  Consent maybe taken by the clinician treating the donor and or the Brain Bank nurse or chaplaincy staff in her absence

• Research programme

  The facility routinely supplies a wide human material for cellular and molecular phenotyping to a variety of BRC themes, as well as to University researchers, quality assurance schemes (NEQAS), clinical trials and commercial companies, for research into a wide range of neurodenerative diseases.

• Storage license

  12318

• RTBTitle

  Cambridge Brain Bank

• Establishment organisation

  Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Addenbrooke's Hospital

• Establishment organisation address

  Department of Histopathology

  Level 5, Hills Road

  Cambridge

  CB2 0QQ