Communicable Diseases Research Tissue Bank

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  357622

• Research summary

  Communicable Diseases Research Tissue Bank

• REC name

  South Central - Oxford C Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  25/SC/0209

• Date of REC Opinion

  4 Jul 2025

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  Samples collected as part of routine care will include blood samples (venous, capillary), genital secretions, sputum, saliva, gingival crevicular fluid (oral fluid from the gum line), nose and throat swabs, urine, pleural fluid, pleural biopsies, pericardial fluid, ascitic fluid, cerebrospinal fluid, bronchoalveolar lavage specimens, and tissue biopsies.
  Samples donated by healthy controls (not affected by a communicable disease) will be limited to blood samples, plus samples that are routinely self-taken including capillary blood, saliva, skin swabs and urine.
  All tissue samples that are prospectively stored within the bank will be collected only after written informed consent has been granted by the donor. The samples may have been taken during the routine care of patients for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Alternatively they may have been donated specifically for the purposes of the research programme linked to this tissue bank. In such cases this would have been explicitly stated to the donor. Consent is explicitly obtained for the provision of relevant clinical data to be collected and that whilst the samples are anonymised
  the code enables linkage to clinical data for the purposes of the research.
  The Tissue Bank is housed in the Imperial College Faculty of Medicine laboratories at South Kensington Campus (Sir Alexander Fleming Building) and Chelsea and Westminster hospital.

• Research programme

  The mission of the tissue bank is to support research into Communicable Diseases and to be responsive to new challenges through the collection, curation and provision to qualified researchers of a range of clinical materials.

• Storage license

  12275

• RTBTitle

  Communicable Diseases Research Tissue Bank

• Establishment organisation

  Imperial College London

• Establishment organisation address

  Exhibition Road

  London

  Sw7 2AZ