EXTEND and the Peninsula Research Bank 5 year extension 2

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  270587

• Research summary

  Exeter 10,000 (EXTEND) and the Peninsula Research Bank(PRB) 5 Year extension - 2

• REC name

  South West - Central Bristol Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  19/SW/0159

• Date of REC Opinion

  5 Nov 2019

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  The samples are currently stored in the RILD Building Freezer Store, DNA Extraction Laboratory and NIHR Exeter Clinical Research Facility Sample Room. The RILD Building is on the RD&E Hospital Site at Barrack Road. Samples are held in minus 20 freezers for up to 2 weeks and then to minus 80 freezers. Al freezers are monitored using a monitoring system to ensure that long term storage does no rise above minus 60 degrees. Data is held within the Exeter Clinical Research Facility Office at the same address on secure servers and in locked offices.

• Research programme

  The Peninsula Research Bank is designed predominantly to support experimental medicine researchers based in Exeter, but is open to applications from collaborators from elsewhere. It provides a central resource and gateway in Exeter to manage volunteer samples and research participation and is managed with significant lay representative involvement. Research supported includes small pilot investigations through to international projects. All uses of samples must be approved by scientific and lay members of a the steering committee.

• Storage license

  12276

• RTBTitle

  Exeter 10,000 (EXTEND) and the Peninsula Research Bank(PRB) 5 Year extension - 2

• Establishment organisation

  NIHR Exeter Clinical Research Facilty

• Establishment organisation address

  2nd Floor RILD Building

  Barrack Rd

  Exeter

  EX2 5DW