Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit
- 01865 223469
- octrutrialshub@ndorms.ox.ac.uk
- http://www.octru.ox.ac.uk/
The Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit (OCTRU) has integrated several trials groups from different therapeutic areas into a single Clinical Trials Unit (CTU). We are a fully registered CTU and lead and co-ordinate strategy, operations and systems across all of the trial groups.
Our scope is to design, conduct and report trials (across all phases) in surgery, musculoskeletal sciences, rheumatology and oncology.
We focus on development pathways and the evaluation of new health technologies in:
- surgery and interventional procedures (including anaesthetics, surgical procedures, pre- and post-surgical care)
- trauma, rehabilitation and conservative management
- pharmaceuticals, particularly in oncology
- the management of inflammation
- biomarkers to refine treatment strategies.
Our THEMES
OCTRU has six therapeutic areas of expertise - all located in Oxford with leading researchers heading each theme.
- Critical Care, Trauma and Rehabilitation Trials Group
- Oncology Clinical Trials Office (OCTO)
- Rheumatology
- Surgical Intervention Trials Unit (SITU)
Methodology Research
As part of OCTRU’s goal to ensure that clinical trials are designed and executed to the highest methodological and ethical standards, we participate in, and lead, methodological research of relevance to clinical trials.
This also ensures we gain and retain a position of leadership in the field, and are recognised internationally as a focus for high quality clinical trial design, conduct and reporting.
We work closely with the Centre for Statistics in Medicine (CSM), which is co-located with the Unit, where statisticians are involved in a number of clinical trials with clinicians and other health care researchers in Oxford and further afield.
CSM also carries out methodological research relating to the design, conduct and reporting of studies of diagnosis, prognosis, and clinical trials and hosts the EQUATOR initiative.
At OCTRU we collaborate with a number of world class methodologists. Individuals within the OCTRU team also play a lead role in a number of international initiatives. Read more here.
Our team
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Sallie Lamb
Honorary Departmental Professor
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Jonathan Cook
Associate Professor
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Vicki Barber
OCTRU Operations Director
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Joanna Black
OCTRU Head of Regulatory Affairs and Quality Assurance (HoRAQ)
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Susan Dutton
Associate Professor and OCTRU Lead Statistician
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Patrick Julier
OCTRU Head of Programming
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Sally Hopewell
Professor of Clinical Trials and Evidence Synthesis
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Lucy Eldridge
Senior OCTRU Database Officer
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Emma Haines
OCTRU - Quality Assurance and Administration Manager
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Simon Shayler
OCTRU Clinical Trials Programmer
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Katie Chegwin
Personal Assistant to Professor David Beard
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Lucy Cureton
Clinical Trial Manager
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Angela Garrett
BOOST Clinical Trial Manager
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Yvonne Sinomati
Clinical Trials Administrative Coordinator
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Ruth Knight
Senior Medical Statistician
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Leena Elhussein
DPhil Student
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Ioana Marian
Medical Statistician
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Malcolm Hart
OCTRU Database Officer
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Mimi Bogale
Clinical Trial Manager
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Elizabeth Conroy
OCTRU Lead Statistician
NIHR CTU Support
This unit receives National Institute for Health Research CTU Support Funding. This funding has been awarded to support the unit in developing and supporting NIHR research.
Collaborate with us
Blog
We have a blog covering all aspects of clinical trials - posts are made regularly by members of the unit.
Patient and Public Involvement
Patient and public involvement (PPI) in research is an important part of all OCTRU trials, as it enables high quality trials to be developed, grow and blossom.
OCTRU trials, and the researchers running them, actively involve patients and the public in their research. Most of our trials have PPI members on the project advisory / steering group and/or PPI members as co-applicants on research projects and grants.
We are always interested to hear from members of the public who would like to get involved on our OCTRU trials. If you would like to get involved please contact us on octrutrialshub@ndorms.ox.ac.uk or by telephoning 01865 223469 for more information.