Renewal of Generation Scotland Tissue Bank 2025

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  354327

• Research summary

  Generation Scotland

• REC name

  East of Scotland Research Ethics Service REC 1

• REC reference

  25/ES/0013

• Date of REC Opinion

  31 Mar 2025

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  Consented DNA, saliva, blood, serum, plasma and urine samples and phenotype and genotype data are stored in Scottish university laboratories. Some further samples and data from a subset of the original cohort have been added from the STRADL sub-study. The samples are stored in University laboratories in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen (Dundee and Aberdeen, and are registered with the Tayside Bioreposiitory). Study data is held securely in University of Edinburgh Medical School datastore at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer.

• Research programme

  The resources are available to approved academic researchers and commercial organisations internationally for answering relevant research questions that are for the benefit of the public, subject to the governance and approval of the Generation Scotland Access Committee. Collaborations are currently ongoing or completed with over 75 academic institutions and 10 commercial organisations. The number of collaborations approved now exceeds 321, with participation in over 396 published papers.

• Storage license

  N/A

• RTBTitle

  Generation Scotland

• Establishment organisation

  Generation Scotland

• Establishment organisation address

  University of Edinburgh

  Institute of Genetics and Cancer

  EH4 2XU