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)
• Alexia Williams (PA to Prof Neil Poulter)

Head of Section

• Professor Kosh Ray (Director of ICTU-Global)

Commercial Team

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

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)
• Dr Thiagarajah Sasikaran (Operations Manager, ICTU-Surgery)
• Lee Webber (Deputy CRUK Centre Clinical Trials Operations Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Mrs Alex Baker (Portfolio Manager)

Operational trial staff

Most 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)
• 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)
• Emma Cullen (Project 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)
• Áine 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)
• Zoe Lovell (Clinical Trials Administrator)
• Amanda Masters (Clinical Trials Administrator)
• Marie Miller (Public Involvement and Engagement Lead)
• Joseph Montebello (Clinical Trial Manager/ Monitor)
• Sharon Mumby (Clinical Trial Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• 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)
• Francesca Rawlins (Clinical Trial Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Meena Reddi (Clinical Trial Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Salma Samsuddin (Clinical Trial Manager)
• Emmanuel Sappor (Clinical Trial Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• Varsha Sonigra-Patel (Clinical Trial Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
• 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 Involvement and 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, Head of SAS, Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials)
• Emanuela Falaschetti (Deputy Head of Statistics, Senior Trial Statistician, Research Fellow, CV & Respiratory Portfolio Lead)
• Leila Janani (Deputy Head of Trial Methodology, Senior Trial Statistician, Advanced 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 (NIHR Doctoral Fellow and Research Associate)
• Lorna Hazell (Clinical Trials Statistician)
• David Hohenschurz-Schmidt (NIHR DSE Fellow and Research Associate)
• Nicholas Johnson (Senior Statistician, Research Fellow, 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 Doctoral Fellow and Research Assistant)
• Ed Waddingham (Senior Trial Statistician, Research Fellow, Infection Portfolio Lead)
• Zohra Zenasni (Statistician - maternity leave)
• 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)