Royal Devon and Exeter Tissue Bank (RDETB)

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  302472

• Research summary

  Royal Devon and Exeter Tissue Bank (RDETB)

• REC name

  Yorkshire & The Humber - Leeds East Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  21/YH/0159

• Date of REC Opinion

  28 Sep 2021

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  The bank will provide centralised governance and management of any samples available during routine clinical care at the RD&E Hospital or collaborating NHS organisation. Samples will only be collected when there is a proposed research question and samples can be obtained without incurring any extra risk to patients or interfering with their diagnosis. Samples collected could include anything from a urine sample to an amputated limb. The data collected with samples will include any information available from medical notes or the donor themselves that would be necessary in answering scientific questions about the samples. Identifiable information (name, hospital number and date of birth) will be collected but will held in a secure linked anonymised format by the RDETB management team and not shared with researchers or external organisations.

• Research programme

  The samples and data may be used by any scientific / medical / clinical researcher to understand the causes of disease with a view to improving understanding, diagnosis and treatment of disease. All requests to use samples will be made in writing to the RDETB Steering Committee for review. No anonymised samples /data will be released without the approval of the RDETB Steering Committee.

• Storage license

  12276

• RTBTitle

  Royal Devon and Exeter Tissue Bank (RDETB)

• Establishment organisation

  NIHR Exeter Clinical Research Facility

• Establishment organisation address

  Royal Devon & Exeter Nhs Foundation Trust

  Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital

  EX2 5DW