Name of bioresource/bank

Scottish National Tissue Collection [under development]

Name of Principal Investigator
TitleDr
First nameAlan
Last nameMcNair
Address of institution where award is held
InstitutionChief Scientist Office
Street AddressSt Andrew’s House, Regent Rd
CityEdinburgh
PostcodeEH1 3DG
Country
  • United Kingdom
  • Website

    http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/cso

    Contact email (e.g. manager or coordinator)
    Funding source

    Chief Scientist Office

    Q1 What conditions does your resource cover?
  • Neurodegenerative disease in general
  • Q2a What DNA collection does your resources hold?
  • None
  • Q2b What cell lines does your resource hold?
  • None
  • Q2c What tissue (including post-mortem tissue) does your resource hold?
  • Above 5000 donors
  • Q3 Are human tissues/samples/DNA from
  • Living donors:blood
  • Living donors: blood derivatives
  • Living donors: peripheral nerve biopsy
  • Living donors: skeletal muscle biopsy
  • Living donors: cerebro-spinal fluid
  • Living donors: other non-neural tissue such as lymph nodes
  • Q4 Are tissues/samples/DNA from
  • Patients
  • Q5 Can samples be linked to clinical (phenotypic) information and if so, is this information:
  • Routinely collected as medical records
  • Q6 In what form are samples supplied?
  • Primary samples: Supplied fresh
  • Primary Samples: Stabilised samples (frozen or fixed)
  • Primary Samples: Stabilised samples (frozen or fixed)
  • Secondary samples:(derivatives of primary samples)
  • Q7 Are biomarkers/analytes/biological characteristics already measured and the information available for your samples?
  • In a few samples
  • Q8 What is the status of your tissue/sample/DNA collection?
    Q9 What are the rules and procedures for access?
  • Local/ regional access
  • National access
  • International access
  • Access to industry
  • Resource has own ethics approval so usually no need for separate external ethics approval
    • Types: Biobanks
      Member States: N/A
      Diseases: N/A
      Years: 2011
      Database Categories: N/A
      Database Tags: N/A

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