cryopreservation and Tissue donation
Cryopreservation (fertility preservation)
Children and adults undergoing chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy can have tissue preserved which, when reimplanted, can restore their fertility in later life.
Future Fertility Programme Oxford
Tissue donation
Parts of your body, or groups of cells, 'tissues', can be donated for transplantation or for research, education and other purposes.
There is a national shortage of some tissue donors. There are many patients in the UK waiting for a tissue transplant operation. There is a great demand in the UK for human tissue for research purposes.
Donation after death
Donated tissue can be used to treat patients and contribute to medical research
Find us and contact us
From the Level 2 main entrance, walk to the League of Friends Café. Opposite the café go through the door to the Oxford Heart Centre.
Walk to the end of the corridor and take the lift down to Level 0, turn right out of the lift and continue to the end of the corridor to the office.
Tel: 01865 220076
There is an answerphone giving 24 hour contact details via OUH switchboard.
Oxford Tissue Cryopreservation Service (OTCS)
Oxford Cell and Tissue Biobank
Level 0, John Radcliffe Hospital
Headington
Oxford OX3 9DU
Tel: 01865 220076 (9.00am - 5.00pm; answerphone at other times)
Oxford Cell and Tissue Biobank Manager
Technicians
- Yvonne Thomas
- Faranaz Auckburally
- Marta Kolad
- Agnes Jaciow
- Michel Sebastian
Tissue Co-ordinator
Programme leads
- Mr Chandi Ratnatunga
Medical Advisor
- Dr Sheila Lane
Lead Consultant, Ovarian and Testicular Tissue Programme
- Dr Paul Harden
Lead Consultant, Cell Therapy Trial
- Dr Olaf Ansorge
Lead Consultant, Oxford Brain Bank