If you are interested in collecting and storing human material for research purposes at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø or 51³Ô¹ÏÍø College Healthcare Trust (ICHT), you must register your collection with the Tissue Bank. Unless the collection and storage of that material are currently covered by project specific REC/Health Research Authority (HRA) approval e.g. a HRA cohort study or clinical trial.
If the collection has its own REC approval, the study must be registered on the , and the appropriate tab on tissue collection completed.
At the end of the REC approval for the study, samples may be retained by registering as a sub-collection with the Tissue Bank.
There are three main types of sub-collection
- Those that use generic consent materials that are approved under the Tissue Bank's own REC approval.
- Those that have used consent materials approved under a different REC approval, and that the original REC approval has lapsed (e.g. a clinical trial that has finished recruiting but the Trial Management Committee wish to retain the human samples collected as part of the trial).
- Collections of human material that have been collected outside the UK or are being supplied by other institutions in the UK.
An application to host a sub-collection must be made on the . If you are a Principal Investigator who already holds a sub-collection, just log on to the database using your College username and password and click 'Apply for a Subcollection'. If you wish to open your first sub-collection please contact the Tissue Bank so that we can register you appropriately.
Information on what is required to set up and run a sub-collection can be found in the document Sub collection Management for Persons Designated and Principal Investigators.
Registration of a sub-collection only enables the collection and storage of human samples.
A Research Project application must be made to the Tissue Bank, in order to use the samples in research.
For more information, see Using Human Samples in Research.