Sheffield Brain Tissue Bank (SBTB)

Name of bioresource/bank
Sheffield Brain Tissue Bank (SBTB)
Name of Principal Investigator

Title	Professor
First name	Paul
Last name	Ince

Address of institution where award is held

Institution	Department of Neuroscience, University of Sheffield
Street Address	STIraN, 385A Glossop Road
City	Sheffield
Postcode	S10 2HQ

Country

United Kingdom

Website
http://www.shef.ac.uk/medicine/neuroscience/sbtb/home.html
Contact email (e.g. manager or coordinator)
[email protected]
Funding source
The SBTB has no dedicated funding and costs are met from department of neuroscience resources. Gill Forster is funded as the CFAS tissue coordinator from the MRC and helps with the MND collection when possible
Q1 What conditions does your resource cover?

Motor neurone diseases

Prion disease

Prion disease

Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias

Parkinson’s disease

Spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA)

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)

Neurodegenerative disease in general

Q2b What cell lines does your resource hold?

None

Q3 Are human tissues/samples/DNA from

Post-mortem donors: brain

Post-mortem donors: spinal cord

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)

Secondary samples: DNA

Q7 Are biomarkers/analytes/biological characteristics already measured and the information available for your samples?

No

Q9 What are the rules and procedures for access?

Access independent of collaboration with PI

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

Sheffield Brain Tissue Bank (SBTB)