Use of healthy volunteer donor samples as hematological control tissue

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Using healthy volunteer donor blood samples and prepared Buffy coats for the study of hematological diseases.

• IRAS ID

  142325

• Contact name

  Farhat Khanim

• Contact email

  Khanimfl@adf.bham.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  University of Birmingham

• Duration of Study in the UK

  2 years, 11 months, 29 days

• Research summary

  Our research focus covers a wide range of haematological diseases, currently concentrating upon Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia, Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, Burkitts Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and Multiple Myeloma. This is with the aim to better understand the biology and therapeutic responses of the diseases in-vitro. We currently investigate cell to cell interactions, cell metabolism and tumour cell susceptibility to different drug combinations through in-vitro screening.
  

• REC name

  North West - Greater Manchester East Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  14/NW/1360

• Date of REC Opinion

  14 Oct 2014

• REC opinion

  Unfavourable Opinion