Name of bioresource/bank
Newcastle Brain Tissue Resource
Name of Principal Investigator
| Title | Dr |
| First name | Chris |
| Last name | Morris |
Address of institution where award is held
| Institution | Institute of Ageing and Health, Newcastle University |
| Street Address | Campus for Ageing and Vitality |
| City | Newcastle upon Tyne |
| Postcode | NE4 5PL |
Country
United Kingdom
Website
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/iah/campus/facilities/nbtr/
Contact email (e.g. manager or coordinator)
d.j.lett@ncl.ac.uk
Funding source
MRC, National Institute for Health Research, Brains for Dementia Research( Funded by AS & ART)
Q1 What conditions does your resource cover?
Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
Prion disease
Parkinson’s disease
Motor neurone diseases
Parkinson’s disease
Huntington’s disease
Neurodegenerative disease in general
Q2a What DNA collection does your resources hold?
101-1000 donors
Q2b What cell lines does your resource hold?
None
Q2c What tissue (including post-mortem tissue) does your resource hold?
1001-5000 donors
1001-5000 donors
Q3 Are human tissues/samples/DNA from
Living donors:blood
Living donors: DNA
Post-mortem donors: brain
Post-mortem donors: spinal cord
Post-mortem donors: other (specify)
Q4 Are tissues/samples/DNA from
Healthy individuals/control donors
Patients
Q5 Can samples be linked to clinical (phenotypic) information and if so, is this information:
In a specific study-associated dataset
Routinely collected as medical records
Q6 In what form are samples supplied?
Primary Samples: Stabilised samples (frozen or fixed)
Primary samples: Supplied fresh
Primary Samples: Stabilised samples (frozen or fixed)
Secondary samples: plasma
Secondary samples: DNA
Q7 Are biomarkers/analytes/biological characteristics already measured and the information available for your samples?
In most samples
Q8 What is the status of your tissue/sample/DNA collection?
Collection ongoing
Q9 What are the rules and procedures for access?
Access Committee mechanism
National access
International access
Access to industry
Access for pilot studies permitted
Resource has own ethics approval so usually no need for separate external ethics approval