REPROCELL Research Tissue Bank

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  310642

• Research summary

  REPROCELL Research Tissue Bank - Studies on Isolated Tissues to Investigate new Medicines

• REC name

  West of Scotland REC 4

• REC reference

  22/WS/0007

• Date of REC Opinion

  9 Mar 2022

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  Tissue will be stored in the REPROCELL Europe Ltd Research Tissue Bank, based within REPROCELL Europe premises located in The West of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow. Relevant clinical data relating to each donor will also be collected and securely stored within the RTB. Only REPROCELL staff will have access to collected data. All donated samples and data will be coded with a unique identifier that can only be decoded by the donor tissue collection site.
  Potential donors will be identified and approached by ethically approved tissue collection sites and using NHS databases and hospital patient record systems or patient recruitment databases. The donor will be given a Participant Information Sheet describing the nature of the bank, what is involved in terms of donation, and the potential research uses of the collected sample. If the donor consents, a sample will be taken and transferred to REPROCELL, processed and stored within the REPROCELL Research Tissue Bank.

• Research programme

  The primary aim of the RTB is to enable the collection, use and storage of tissues and biospecimens suitable for use in functional pharmacological and biological assay or systems, and subsequent post assay evaluations. Tissues and biospecimens will be used primarily by REPROCELL to provide specialist pharmacological assays as a service to researchers within the drug development field. Tissues and biospecimens will also be made available to researchers for use in end-point evaluation assays upon request. . Research areas for use of the tissue will be varied and within a range of scientific disciplines, including but not limited to, drug discovery, pathobiology, pre-clinical cellular therapy development, stem cell research, toxicology etc.

• RTBTitle

  REPROCELL Research Tissue Bank - Studies on Isolated Tissues to Investigate new Medicines

• Establishment organisation

  REPROCELL Europe Limited

• Establishment organisation address

  Thomson Pavilion - Todd Campus

  West of Scotland Science Park

  Acre Road

  G20 0XA