Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Research Skin and Tissue Bank

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  214160

• Research summary

  Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Research Skin and Tissue Bank

• REC name

  North West - Haydock Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  16/NW/0736

• Date of REC Opinion

  11 Nov 2016

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  Excised tissue removed after surgery for abnormal and normal skin scarring, Dupuytren's disease, breast capsular contracture as well as excised normal tissue will be stored at the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Research laboratory at the Stopford Building (University of Manchester) and stored and utilised under appropriate conditions.Tissue will be stored in allocated fridges/freezers/cabinets and these will always be in a locked room.

  No personally identifiable patient data will be held by the Tissue Bank and all samples are anonymised and are only obtained after informed consent has been received by a trained member of the healthcare team or a dedicated research nurse.

  Patients will be allocated a unique identifying number in order that they can be tracked and traced back to the original patient if necessary by the healthcare team responsible for their day to day treatment. The only data held by the bank and available to research staff will be basic demographic data relating to age, gender, ethnicity and basic medical and family history relating to the specific disease condition being studies.

• Research programme

  The Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Research Group at the University of Manchester has an established track record of research and peer reviewed publication. The main interest of the Research Group is the investigation of the cellular and molecular mechanisms leading to abnormal wound healing and tissue fibrosis. Research is undertaken in to the mechanisms of abnormal skin scarring, the formation of Dupuytren's disease in the hand and the contractures and fibrosis of breast implant capsules due to interactions with the surrounding tissue. The tissue bank allows us to recruit patients from a wider network of hospital clinics, allowing more effective collaboration with fellow researchers and establishing a repository of tissue samples for research purposes by other researchers with a common interest.

• Storage license

  12172

• RTBTitle

  Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Research Skin and Tissue Bank

• Establishment organisation

  University of Manchester

• Establishment organisation address

  Stopford Building

  Oxford Road

  Manchester

  M13 9PT