BRAIN UK
UK BRain Archive Information Network
Accessing NHS tissue archives for neuroscience research
BRAIN UK is an MRC-funded initiative supported by the British Neuropathological Society which is cataloguing the diagnostic tissue holdings of UK neuropathology centres and making these extensive archives available to the research community for high quality neurological research.
These valuable tissue resources are derived from post mortem examinations and contain neurological conditions that do not currently attract dedicated Brain Banking funding (e.g. stroke) as well as psychiatric disorders (e.g. schizophrenia) and rare disorders (e.g. progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy). Importantly, BRAIN UK also has many normal cases useful as controls.
We are now accepting enquiries via e-mail and, if BRAIN UK is in a position to provide tissue for research use, researchers will be invited to submit an application.
