Northern Care Alliance Research Collection (NCARC)

The Northern Care Alliance Research Collection (NCARC) is a Human Tissue Authority (HTA) licensed generic research tissue bank with an affiliated sample biorepository operated by Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. NCARC was established in 2018 and given ethical permission (Wales Research Ethics Committee 4, REC number 18/WA/0368) to collect, store and release biomaterial and NHS data to support biomedical research.

Existing samples:

  • Acquired hypothyroidism (disorder)
  • Acute coronary syndrome (disorder)
  • Congestive heart failure due to cardiomyopathy (disorder)
  • COVID-19
  • Distal spinal muscular atrophy (disorder)
  • Fabry's disease (disorder)
  • Hyperinsulinar obesity (disorder)
  • Local recurrence of malignant tumor of lung (disorder)
  • Malignant hypertensive chronic kidney disease (disorder)
  • Mitochondrial cytopathy (disorder)
  • Motor neuron disease (disorder)
  • Mucolipidosis (disorder)
  • Mucopolysaccharidosis (disorder)
  • Organic Acidaemia (disorder)
  • Persistent neonatal myasthenia gravis (disorder)
  • Psychoactive substance-induced organic dementia (disorder)
  • Severe persistent allergic asthma (disorder)

Contact Information

Email:
ncarc@nca.nhs.uk
Telephone:
07523932504
Address:

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Summerfield House
544 Eccles New Road
 Salford
Greater Manchester
M5 5AP
England

Last Updated: 11/22/2022


Annual Statistics

Year Access Requests Received Access Requests Approved
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2018 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
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2020 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2021 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2022 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2023 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2024 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2025 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A