Early Pregnancy Tissue Collection (renewal of 18/NW/0096).

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  322725

• Research summary

  Early Pregnancy Tissue Collection

• REC name

  North West - Haydock Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  23/NW/0039

• Date of REC Opinion

  21 Feb 2023

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  The Early Pregnancy Tissue Collection requests consent from women undergoing termination of pregnancy. Samples and data are stored anonymously by researchers at the University of Manchester and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust. The consent and collection arrangements involve no additional interventions beyond normal clinical care. The team overseeing the research are very experienced in this work and deliver a dedicated practice at every step.

• Research programme

  The collected material facilitates research into human developmental biology for the general benefit of how future pregnancies and how children born with developmental abnormalities are cared for. It is imperative to understand the development and function of the early placenta and developing organs, as without this knowledge it is impossible to appreciate what can go wrong. By understanding how very specialised cells first develop, the research programme also provides the underpinning knowledge for regenerative medicine, the ambitious branch of medicine to learn how to generate new cells and repair damaged tissues in adult bodies.

• Storage license

  12172

• RTBTitle

  Early Pregnancy Tissue Collection

• Establishment organisation

  University of Manchester

• Establishment organisation address

  Oxford Road

  Manchester

  M13 9PT