On 3rd February 2010 a new clinic for setting up and running clinical trials was launched by Imperial College London.
The ICTU will provide a central resource to help scientists apply for funding, design and carry out trials, and analyse their results. It will bring together clinicians, statisticians and trial managers with expertise in every aspect of running clinical trials.
The ICTU was launched by Professor Dame Sally Davies, Director General of Research and Development and Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department of Health and NHS.
The unit will operate as part of Imperial’s Academic Health Science Centre, the unique partnership between Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust that formed in October 2007 The AHSC’s aim is to improve the quality of life of patients and populations by taking new discoveries and translating them into new therapies as quickly as possible.
The ICTU incorporates the International Centre for Circulatory Health Trials Unit and the Clinical Trial and Evaluation Unit at the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. It will also work with Imperial’s other partner NHS Trusts.
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i would like to be a part of medical trials as i found it intresting and an easy way of serving the mankind and getting paid for that as well