Tayside Biorepository

• Research type

  Research Tissue Bank

• IRAS ID

  232111

• Research summary

  Tayside Biorepository 2017 (V2)

• REC name

  East of Scotland Research Ethics Service REC 1

• REC reference

  17/ES/0130

• Date of REC Opinion

  10 Oct 2017

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion

• Data collection arrangements

  This application is for renewal of the TBRs existing ethical authorisation to act as a Research Tissue Bank. It seeks permission to continue to collect, store and distribute samples of human tissue and data in NHS and University of Dundee laboratories within Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee. The material collected is surplus tissue that may arise during the course of surgery and diagnosis and treatment of patients who give permission for such material to be retained and used for the purposes of medical research instead of it being discarded. This also includes tissue that is held within the NHS pathology archive and is held under the auspice of TBR. Relevant clinical data from the consenting patients will also be held and provided along with tissue to researchers on an anonymised basis.

• Research programme

  Tissue and data retained by the Bank is primarily from patients with a possible cancer diagnosis, with particular emphasis on breast, colorectal and skin cancers for which the University of Dundee has particular expertise and has an international reputation. The Bank also retains material from other conditions and plays a leading role in the governance of human tissue used for research within Tayside. The acquisition of surplus surgical tissue provides an additional cohort of material that can be provided for research in a variety of different disease areas. Additionally, Tayside Biorepository plays a lead role in developing essential new policies within the Scottish Biorepository Network to develop the national research infrastructure to facilitate medical research and innovation and increase our competitiveness within the UK and globally. A key resource in translational and clinical research including delivery of Precision or Stratified Medicine is a biorepository network. The NRS Bio-repository network will be a key component of the “Precision Medicine Ecosystem for Scotland .A key priority of the Biorepository is therefore to ensure its activity is closely aligned to the research strategies set out by the CSO as well as those of the local and UK research community.

• Storage license

  N/A

• RTBTitle

  Tayside Biorepository 2017 (V2)

• Establishment organisation

  Tayside Biorepository

• Establishment organisation address

  Nethergate

  Dundee

  DD1 9SY