NovoPath Biobank

The NovoPath Biobank (previously CePA) was established in 2017 as an NHS resource for research. It has full Biobanking REC approval until 2025. It includes provision for access to tissues that are surplus to diagnostic purposes on a prospective basis ‘on request’. It also allows for access to the huge tissue archive of FFPE blocks dating back some 25 years; to give some context to this, currently >200,000 blocks per annum are currently collected and stored.

Services

  • Access to the full pathology archive
  • Digital imaging
  • Immunohistochemistry - scoring
  • Immunohistochemistry - staining
  • Tissue micro array creation

Contact Information

Email:
nuth.novopath@nhs.net
Telephone:
0191 2824460
Address:

Novopath
Level 2 - The Biosphere
Draymans Way
Newcastle Helix
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE4 5BX
England

Last Updated: 19/09/2023


Annual Statistics

Year Access Requests Received Access Requests Approved
Internal External Commercial Internal External Commercial
2015 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2016 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2017 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2018 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2019 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2020 N/A 3 N/A N/A 3 N/A
2021 1 17 3 1 17 3
2022 2 16 9 2 10 9
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