The Airwave Health Monitoring Study Tissue Bank ("Tissue Bank") is led by a Steering Committee (with Professor Paul Elliott as the study Principal Investigator) since 2004. The Tissue Bank is based at Imperial College London and day-to-day operations are handled by individuals in the areas of IT development; data management; long-term follow-up; event validation; statistical support; genetics and biosamples; and administration and general support.
The Tissue Bank is registered as sub-collection under the Human Tissue Act (HTA) licence held by NIHR - National Biosample Centre with licence number 12624.
Airwave study has an ‘Access Committee’ consisting of Principal Investigator (PI), study coordinator, an epidemiologist and a representative of the Police Federation (lay-person), who review applications from research groups to provide samples and data.