Research groups
Patrick Julier
OCTRU Head of Programming
I have over 25 years’ experience in the IT industry, working in manufacturing, finance, telecommunications and the public sector before working in Clinical Trials when I joined the Oncology Clinical Trials Office (OCTO) in 2004.
I am OCTRU's Head of Programming and lead a team of 5 programmers/database officers. I joined OCTRU in October 2013 when we had no IT systems to speak of. Since then we have developed 5 systems and installed and support 4 off-the-shelf systems.
We look forward to taking these systems forward and to continue providing a responsive and professional service to all the Clinical Trials Units within the OCTRU family.
Recent publications
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Temporary 2-week suspension of methotrexate treatment to enhance COVID-19 vaccine response in people with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: the VROOM RCT
Journal article
Abhishek A. et al, (2025), Efficacy and mechanism evaluation, 1 - 42
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Effect of a 2-week interruption in methotrexate treatment on COVID-19 vaccine response in people with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases (VROOM study): a randomised, open label, superiority trial
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Abhishek A. et al, (2025), Efficacy and mechanism evaluation, 12, 47 - 48
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Effect of a 2-week interruption in methotrexate treatment versus continued treatment on COVID-19 booster vaccine immunity in adults with inflammatory conditions (VROOM study): a randomised, open label, superiority trial
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(2025), Efficacy and mechanism evaluation, 1 - 2
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Effects of temporarily suspending low-dose methotrexate treatment for 2 weeks after SARS-CoV-2 vaccine booster on vaccine response in immunosuppressed adults with inflammatory conditions: protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial and nested mechanistic substudy (Vaccine Response On/Off Methotrexate (VROOM) study)
Journal article
Abhishek A. et al, (2025), Efficacy and mechanism evaluation, 12, 43 - 44
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Streamlining electronic reporting of serious adverse events (SAEs) using the REDCap data collection system: the eSAE Project
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Black J. et al, (2024), Trials