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University tissue bank to enhance biomedical research - 22/09/2008
The University of Bradford has opened a pioneering facility that will provide biomedical researchers access to a wide range of human tissue and tissue products.
Organisations such as the NHS Trusts, the NHS Blood and Transplant Tissue Services have given their backing to the new tissue bank, named ‘Ethical Tissue’, which will be based in the university’s Institute of Cancer Therapeutics.
The facility builds on the highly successful tumour bank based within the Institute which supplied specimens vital to cancer research. As a result of the ever-increasing demands for access to a wider range of human tissue for use in biomedical research, the university has now become one of the first in the UK to open as a licensed ethically approved research tissue bank.
Organisations and research projects from many areas of biomedical science will benefit from the samples or data available from Ethical Tissue.
Sandie Martin, head of Ethical Tissue, said: “This new and improved facility makes us a leader amongst current sources for the processing and supply of human tissue to all types of biomedical research groups.
“Our ability to provide researchers directly with ethical approval will ensure a very efficient process that enables them to receive human tissue in a significantly reduced time frame.
Dr Kevin Adams, innovation manager for the University of Bradford’s School of Life Sciences, added: “Ethical Tissue will be a tremendous research resource for Bradford and the research community at large.”
