The Nottingham Research Biobank has now received Ethical Approval. This is the first formal step in our co-ordinated biobanking and patient informatics strategy. The Ethics approval itself has a number of unique features, and is by far the most comprehensive in the UK. It includes: generic consent for biobanking embedded in all Trust surgical/diagnostic consent [...]
Nottingham is alone in being awarded three Biomedical Research Units by the Department of Health, representing a large scale investment in infrastructure and promoting strong partnership between the NHS, academia and industry. This success has identified the partnership between Nottingham University Hospitals and the University of Nottingham as a potential site for further investment in [...]