Programme

09.30 Coffee & Registration
Plenary
10.00-10.15 10.15-10.45 10.45-11.00 11.00-11.15 11.15-11.45 11.45-12.15	Welcome - MRC Chief Executive Expectations of donors - Roger Wilson, Sarcoma Trust and tissue donor Experimental Medicine - Dr Catherine Elliott, MRC NIHR Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure - Professor William Rosenberg, NOCRI UK Brain Banks Network - Professor James Ironside, UK Brain Banks Network Human Tissue legislation and the research sector - Baroness Diana Warwick, Chair of HTA

12.15-13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.15 Parallel Sessions

Identifying opportunities and barriers to tissue sharing
15 mins presentation plus 5 mins Q&A each:

Defining best practice in quality
management
15 mins presentation plus 5 mins Q&A each:

Enabling responsible sharing: NCRI Tissue & Data Access Template - Dr Brian Clark, onCore UK
Involving the pharmaceutical industry in realising experimental medicine objectives - Dr Louise Leong, ABPI
NHS pathology - a valuable resource, maximising its research use - Professor Barry Gusterson, University of Glasgow
Generic consent, banking and sharing tissues - Professor Nalin Thakker, NRES
Discussion and sum-up

Overview of quality systems - Dr Colin Wilsher, BARQA
Ensuring quality of samples and processing - Dr Tim Peakman, UK Biobank
Creation of a robust data set from NHS sources - Chris Carrigan, NCIN
Informatics - Challenge of linking data whilst maintaining confidentiality - Dr Katherine Rice, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Discussion and sum-up

15.15-15.45 Coffee

15.45-16.15
16.15-16.30
16.30

A funders perspective - Dr Louise Jones, CRUK
Summary and next steps - Dr Declan Mulkeen, MRC
Conference close

Conference Date:	15th September 2010
Venue:	National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham

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