Statement of support from BBSRC & MRC
ShARM will provide valuable resources for the scientific community while helping to reduce the number of animals used in vital research into ageing. The biobank of tissue and networking facility will enable scientists to access shared research material and data. By making use of collective resources, the number of individual animals required in research experiments can be minimised. The project also has the added value of helping to reduce the costs of research by connecting scientists, pooling resource and combining knowledge.
Using tissues from ShARM has saved us time and money and has been invaluable in pursuing our research on ageing metabolism without the need for additional animal models.
Dr James Brown, Lecturer in Ageing Metabolism, Aston Research Centre for Healthy Ageing, Aston University
Our laboratory has both donated and used tissues from the ShARM biorepository. The tissues we have obtained from ShARM were of excellent quality and allowed us to generate preliminary data for grant applications and complete work for 2 publications.