The Lancet Laboratories Publications Committee (LPC)  reviews research requests primarily within the company but also from external researchers. The LPC is made up of pathologists with research experience from various disciplines and locations within Lancet Laboratories and is chaired by Prof Eftyhia Vardas. The purpose of the LPC is to promote quality, ethical, scientific and operational research to enable the research skills of Lancet Laboratories employees and their collaborators and to provide significant evidence based findings either clinically or operationally.  

Researchers who would like to make use of Lancet Laboratories data or resources (staff, time, infrastructure) to conduct research must submit the following two forms to the LPC for review (LPC Appendix 1)  (Appendix 2). The review process ensures that there is no risk to the use of Lancet Laboratories resources or reputation, that patient data privacy is protected and that the research that is conducted is ethical, follows recognised scientific processes and will provide significant clinical or operational outcomes. External researchers are encouraged to identify and work with an internal Lancet Laboratories collaborator in the relevant field in which they are interested to facilitate accessing data and resources.

LPC review occurs on the first Friday of every month. It is the responsibility of the researcher to ensure that all the necessary documentation is submitted on time including ethical approval (conditional or full), academic department or supervisor approval of the research protocol, patient information plus informed consent documents if the research is being conducted using human subjects. The LPC will respond within 3 weeks. If the data that is requested is already in use by another researcher the requestor will be informed accordingly. Data exclusivity is granted for 12 months.

On completion of the project the completed report, presentation or publication must be submitted to the LPC. Accepted peer-reviewed papers will be uploaded to the LPC Research Output section.