Cambridge Brain Bank (CBB)

Name of bioresource/bank
Cambridge Brain Bank (CBB)
Name of Principal Investigator

Title Peter
First name Collins
Last name Professor

Address of institution where award is held

Institution Addenbrookes Hospital,Histopathology , Box 235
Street Address Hills Road
City Cambridge
Postcode CB2 0QQ

Country

  • United Kingdom

    • Website
    www.cuh.org.uk/research/public/public_index.html
    Contact email (e.g. manager or coordinator)
    [email protected]
    Funding source
    NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre
    Q1 What conditions does your resource cover?

  • Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
  • Motor neurone diseases
  • Parkinson’s disease
  • Motor neurone diseases
  • Prion disease
  • Huntington’s disease
  • Spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA)
  • Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)
  • Neurodegenerative disease in general
  • Parkinson’s disease

    • Q2a What DNA collection does your resources hold?

  • 1-100 donors

    • Q2b What cell lines does your resource hold?

  • None

    • Q2c What tissue (including post-mortem tissue) does your resource hold?

  • 1001-5000 donors

    • Q3 Are human tissues/samples/DNA from

  • Post-mortem donors: other (specify)
  • Post-mortem donors: brain
  • Post-mortem donors: spinal cord

    • 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
  • Collected as part of a specific clinical trial(s)

    • Q6 In what form are samples supplied?

  • Primary samples: Supplied fresh
  • Primary Samples: Stabilised samples (frozen or fixed)
  • Secondary samples:(derivatives of primary samples)
  • Secondary samples: plasma
  • Secondary samples: RNA
  • Secondary samples: protein extracts
  • Secondary samples: cell lines derived from primary samples

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

  • No

    • 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
  • Local/ regional access
  • National access
  • International access
  • Access to industry
  • Access for pilot studies permitted
  • Applicant needs to provide separate external ethics approval

    • Cambridge Brain Bank (CBB)

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