Storage of Blood Samples

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The Institute of Education is known throughout the world as the UK's premier institution for the education and training of teachers and for the conduct of educational and social research. That reputation has been gained and sustained over a period of 100 years. It has an annual turnover of GBP70m, which is forecast to grow to circa GBP80m over the next 5 years. The Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) is an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) resource centre responsible for running four of Britain's internationally-renowned cohort studies. - 1958 National Child Development Study - 1970 British Cohort Study - Millennium Cohort Study - Next Steps (previously known as the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England) The IOE's Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) is now seeking proposals from laboratories to process and store blood samples collected during -the Age 46 survey of the 1970 British Cohort Study.