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Enabling research into neurological disease

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Facilitating access to NHS tissue archives for neuroscience research.

If you're a researcher requiring human tissue from disorders affecting the brain and neuromuscular system then BRAIN UK will help you find the tissue you need. Working with our network of NHS Neuropathology Centres across the UK - our 'Participating Centres' - our matching service connects researchers with the range of Central Nervous System (CNS) tissue available across the network.

To make an initial check for tissue availability click 'informal enquiry'.

If you are ready to make a formal application click 'apply now'.

Email: brainuk@soton.ac.uk

Informal enquiry Apply now

We are a network of 20+ NHS Neuropathology Centres

Our matching service helps researchers find the tissue they need

We are happy to consider studies from anywhere in the world

Service users say they could not complete their work without us

Recently approved studies

Image to represent BRAIN UK Category: Tumour

20/009: Regulation of microRNAs in glioblastoma

Researching the proteins that co-ordinate the microRNAs in glioblastoma formation and chemotherapy resistance will reveal the molecular function of these proteins and their role.

Image to represent BRAIN UK Category: Inflammation

20/007: Neuropathology of COVID-19

Large study to look at the damage caused to the brain by this virus.

20/006: Validation of antibody for ependymoma

Validation of diagnostic antibody on tissue from patients previously diagnosed with different subgroups of intracranial ependymoma.

BRAIN UK is funded by Brain Tumour Research and the Medical Research Council

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