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UCL Biobank Ethics Review Committee

The UCL Biobank Ethical Review Committee (BERC) overseas the Research Tissue Bank ethical approval of both the UCL/UCLH Biobank for Studying Health and Disease and the UCL-RFH biobank. The Ethical Review Committee for the biobank will review requests for new sample collections and also requests for use of samples/data for research, including those which do not already have ethical approval and ensure they satisfy conditions laid down by NRES for the release of tissues by the Research Tissue Bank. The biobank Ethical Review Committee B-ERC been set up and is now reviewing requests. If you wish to start a new sample collection or wish to use existing samples please contact Nadege Presneau (n.presneau@ucl.ac.uk) or Kirstin Goldring (k.goldring@ucl.ac.uk) for further information. The BERC reports to the UCL/UCLH/RFH Clinical Governance Committee and has clear terms of reference.

The current membership of BERC is:

Amanda Gibbon	Chair
Adrienne Flanagan	Designated Individual for HTA Licence, CI and Rockefeller
Nadege Presneau	Person Designated for HTA Licence, CI and Rockefeller
Mark Lowdell	Director of UCL-Royal Free BioBan
Nick McNally	Director of Research Support
Marco Novelli	Department of Pathology, Cancer Institute
John Kelly	Department of General Surgery
Tim Meyer	Research Department of Oncology, Cancer Institute
John Hartley	Research Department of Oncology, Cancer Institute
Martin Widschwendter	Gynaecological Cancer, Institute of Women's Health
Rebecca Sophie Kristeleit	Research Department of Oncology, Cancer Institute
Kirstin Goldring	Biobank Facilitator
Sarah Edwards	Senior Lecturer in Research Ethics and Governance
Manuel Rodriguez-Justo	Department of Pathology, Cancer Institute
Rupali Aurora	Histopathology Consultant UCLH
Alex Freeman	Histopathology Consultant UCLH
Teresa Marafioti	Department of Pathology, Cancer Institute
Asim Khwaja	Research Department of Haematology, Cancer Institute
Clive Saville	Lay person
Gary Brown	Head Biomedical Scientist - Histopathology
Sandra Strauss	Research Department of Oncology, Cancer Institute