ICTU staff

The ICTU Executive Committee team consists of the Director, Deputy Director, Senior Clinical Academic Lead, Business Development Manager and the Heads of Sections. 

• Professor Victoria Cornelius (Director of ICTU)
• Professor Neil Poulter (Senior Clinical Academic Lead)
• Dr Daphne Babalis (Director of Operations)
• Dr Suzie Cro (co-Head of Statistics, Head of Trial Methodology and Senior Lecturer)
• Dr Rachel Phillips (co-Head of Statistics, Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials)
• Francesco Lala (Head of Clinical Data Systems)
• Dr Gaia Kiru (Head of Commercial Operations & Partnerships)
• Lauren Noto (Departmental Manager)
• Eloise Britten (Head of Quality Assurance)
• Claire Smith (Business & Development Manager)

The departmental administration team works across the UKCRC Clinical Trials Unit, as well as the wider department.

• Lauren Noto (Departmental Manager)
• Nicola Carter (Administrator)
• Angela Knight (Administrator)
• Rani Rayat (PA to ICTU Director)

Head of Section

• Professor Kosh Ray (Director of ICTU-Global)

Commercial Team

• Gaia Kiru (Head of Operations & Partnerships)
• Jennifer Murphy (Operations Manager - maternity leave)
• Jess Smith (Operations Manager)
• Yasmin Abdat (Clinical Trial Monitor)
• Stephanie Amiridis (Clinical Trial Monitor)
• Claire Brennan (Clinical Trial Manager)
• Lisa Feng (Clinical Trial Monitor)
• Felicia Frost (Clinical Trial Administrator)
• Maria Moreno Morales (Clinical Trial Manager)

You can find further information about the Clinical Data Systems team on their webpage.

Head of Section

• Dr Daphne Babalis (Director of Operations)

Operations managers

• Philip Badman (CRUK Centre Clinical Trials Operations Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Dr Ana Boshoff (Operations Manager)
• Mrs Hanna Box (Operations Manager)
• Mrs Mary Cross (Operations Manager)
• Mrs Natalia Klimowska-Nassar (Operations Manager, ICTU-Surgery)
• Dr Verity Leeson (RSS Operations Manager, Clinical Research)
• Dr Christina Prechtl (Operations Manager)
• Dr Claire Smith (Operations & Business Development Manager)
• Thiagarajah Sasikaran (Operations Manager, ICTU-Surgery)
• Lee Webber (Deputy CRUK Centre Clinical Trials Operations Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)

Operational trial staff

The majority of ICTU staff are employed within the School of Public Health. However, some staff are employed through the departments where the main trial teams they work with are based; these instances are noted below.

• Increase Akinyemi (Clinical Trial Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Shian Anim-Burton (Clinical Trial Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Alex Baker (Clinical Trial Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Janis Best-Lane (Clinical Trial Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Joe Bolger (Clinical Trial Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Yu-Chieh Chiu (Clinical Trial Monitor)
• Aaron Clarke (Clinical Trial Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Richard Cleaver (Clinical Trial Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Ross Dalton (Clinical Trial Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Karen Danois (Clinical Trial Manager)
• Ravinder Dhaliwal (Clinical Trial Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Rowan Dulson (Clinical Trial Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Elizabeth Fagbodun (Clinical Trial Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Stephen Fletcher (Clinical Trial Manager)
• Marta Gielniewska (Clinical Trial Monitor)
• Mariam Habib (Clinical Trial Manager)
• Arzish Haqqee (Clinical Trial Manager)
• Michael Hetherington (Clinical Trial Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Aine Hogan (Clinical Trial Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Lindsay Jack (Clinical Trial Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Puja Jadav (Clinical Trial Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Promli Kamali (Clinical Trial Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Sophie Kathir (Clinical Trial Manager, NHLI)
• Paulina Kuswik (Clinical Trial Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Gemma Loebenberg (Clinical Trial Manager, Department of Brain Sciences)
• Marie Miller (Public Involvement and Engagement Lead)
• Joseph Montebello (Clinical Trial Manager/ Monitor)
• Danielle Nana-Dabankah (Clinical Trial & Data Administrator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Natalia Olejniczak (Clinical Trial Monitor)
• Ayomide Olorunfemi (Clinical Trial Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Alexis Perkins (Clinical Trial Manager, NHLI)
• Anurag Pramanik (Clinical Trials Monitor)
• Meena Reddi (Clinical Trial Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Salma Samsuddin (Clinical Trial Manager)
• Najwa Soussi (Clinical Trial Monitor)
• Claire Streatfield (Clinical Trial Manager)
• Lucy Stronach (Clinical Trial Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Johanna Sukumar (Clinical Trial Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Louise Ward (Public Involement aand Engagement Facilitator)

• Eloise Britten (Head of Quality Assurance)
• Jonathan Dao (Quality Assurance Administrator)

Heads of Section

• Dr Suzie Cro (co-Head of Statistics, Head of Trial Methodology, Senior Lecturer)
• Dr Rachel Phillips (co-Head of Statistics, Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials)
• Emanuela Falaschetti (Deputy Head of Statistics, Senior Trial Statistician, CV & Respiratory Portfolio Lead)
• Leila Janani (Deputy Head of Trial Methodology, Senior Trial Statistician, Research Fellow)

ICTU Clinical Trial Statistics Team

• Spyridon Bissas (NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow)
• Louise Cherrill (Clinical Trials Statistician)
• Oswald Dallimore (NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow)
• Sapna Dave (Clinical Trials Statistician)
• Jack Elkes (Clinical Trials Statistician)
• Lorna Hazell (Clinical Trials Statistician)
• Nicholas Johnson (Senior Statistician, Surgery & Cancer Portfolio Lead)
• Rayka Malek (Clinical Trials Statistician)
• Jack Message (Clinical Trials Statistician)
• Consuelo Nohpal de la Rosa (Clinical Trials Statistician)
• Martin Orr (Clinical Trials Statistician)
• Eleanor van Vogt (NIHR Fellow)
• Ed Waddingham (Senior Trial Statistician, Research Fellow)
• Annie Wright (Statistician)
• Zohra Zenasni (Statistician)
• Xiao Xuan Tan (NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow)

Statistical Advisory Service

External to the UKCRC Clinical Trials Unit, but part of the wider ICTU department.

• Joseph Eliahoo (Statistical Consultant)
• Krupa Shukla (SAS Administrator and Course Tutor)