ICTU is divided into sections, with oversight from the Executive Committee team.
Please expand below for further details.
Senior Management
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 of Medical Statistics and Trials Methodology)
- Professor Chris Gale (Deputy Director of ICTU, Professor of Neonatal Medicine)
- Professor Neil Poulter (Senior Clinical Academic Lead, Professor of Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine)
- Dr Daphne Babalis (Director of Operations)
- Professor Ceire Costelloe (Chair in Health Informatics)
- Professor Elena Pizzo (Chair in Health Economics and Evaluation)
- Dr Suzie Cro (Associate Professor in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials, Head of Trial Methodology and co-Head of Statistics)
- Dr Rachel Phillips (Associate Professor in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials, Head of Clinical Trial Statistics and co-Head of Statistics)
- Dr Agnieszka Lemanska (Assistant Professor in Digital Health & 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)
Administration
The departmental administration team works across the UKCRC Clinical Trials Unit, as well as the wider department.
- Lauren Noto (Departmental Manager)
- Nicola Carter (PA to Prof. Chris Gale and Administrator)
- Emma Mok (PA to Prof. Victoria Cornelius)
- Angela Knight (Departmental Administrator)
- Rani Rayat (Personal Assistant to Prof. Neil Poulter)
Commercial
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 - maternity leave)
- Anu Pramanik (Clinical Trial Manager/ Monitor)
- Santosh Singh (Clinical Trial Manager/ Monitor)
- Stephanie Amiridis (Clinical Trial Monitor - maternity leave)
- Felicia Frost (Clinical Trial Administrator)
Clinical Data Systems
Head of Section
Francesco Lala (Head of Clinical Data Systems)
Kenan Direk (Deputy Head of Clinical Data Systems)
Data Management
Vivienne Okona-Mensah (Senior Data Manager)
Validation and Test Team
Dinesh Sivakumar (Senior Data Specialist)
Adina Ion (Data Specialist)
Tolulope Sokunle (Data Specialist)
Production Support Team
Nayan Das (Data Systems Manager)
Lee Barker (Senior Data Specialist)
Vanaja Kakarla (Data Specialist)
Systems Development Team
Emma Kirby (Systems Development Manager)
Smita Das (Data Specialist)
Zala Noorzad (Data Specialist)
You can find further information about the Clinical Data Systems team on their webpage.
OPERATIONS
Head of Section
- Dr Daphne Babalis (Director of Operations)
Operations managers
- Philip Badman (CRUK Centre Clinical Trials Operations Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Mrs Alex Baker (Portfolio Manager)
- Dr Ana Boshoff (Operations Manager)
- Mrs Hanna Box (Operations Manager)
- Mrs Mary Cross (Operations Manager)
- Ms Rahi Jahan (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)
- Mrs Laura Stylianou (Cancer Clinical Trials Deputy Operations Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
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 Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Louise Austin (Public Involvement and Engagement Facilitator)
- Omolade Awomolo (Interim Clinical Trials Manager)
- Janis Best-Lane (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Rhianne Beveney (Clinical Trials Manager)
- Luke Bolger (Clinical Trials Monitor)
- Yu-Chieh Chiu (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Aaron Clarke (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Richard Cleaver (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Emma Cullen (Project Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Lenka Cuprova (Clinical Trials Administrator)
- Ross Dalton (Clinical Trials Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Karen Danois (Clinical Trials Manager)
- Ravinder Dhaliwal (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Rowan Dulson (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Ankita Duseja (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Ify Ejizu (Clinical Trials Monitor)
- Elizabeth Fagbodun (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Marta Gielniewska (Clinical Trials Monitor)
- Ramona Georgescu (Clinical Trials Manager)
- Michael Hetherington (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Lindsay Jack (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Puja Jadav (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer - maternity leave)
- Promli Kamali (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Sophie Kathirgamanathan (Clinical Trials Manager, NHLI)
- Tryphena Konala (Clinical Trials Monitor)
- Nishtha Kotriwala (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Paulina Kuswik (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Amelia Langdon (Clinical Trial and Data Administrator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Gemma Loebenberg (Clinical Trials Manager)
- Zoe Lovell (Clinical Trials Monitor)
- Elisha Manasoko (Clinical Trials Monitor)
- Amanda Masters (Clinical Trials Monitor)
- Marie Miller (Public Involvement and Engagement Lead)
- Joseph Montebello (Clinical Trials Manager)
- Caitlin Muller (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Sharon Mumby (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Abi Neduncheliyan (Clinical Trials Manager/ Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Natalia Olejniczak (Clinical Trials Monitor)
- Ayomide Olorunfemi (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Alexis Perkins (Clinical Trials Manager)
- Tayla Perreau (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Francesca Rawlins (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Meena Reddi (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Rebecca Ruiz (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Salma Samsuddin (Clinical Trials Manager)
- Emmanuel Sappor (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Tayla Schaapveld (Data Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Varsha Sonigra-Patel (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Najwa Soussi (Clinical Trials Manager)
- Claire Streatfield (Clinical Trials Manager)
- Lucy Stronach (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Johanna Sukumar (Clinical Trials Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Genee Tolentino (Clinical Trials Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Faye Tsai (Clinical Trials Administrator)
- Rosie Way (Clinical Trials Manager)
Quality Assurance
- Eloise Britten (Head of Quality Assurance)
- Jonathan Dao (Quality Assurance Administrator)
Statistics
Heads of Section
- Dr Suzie Cro (co-Head of Statistics, Head of Trial Methodology, Senior Lecturer - Maternity Leave)
- 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)
- Manel Benlloch (Clinical Trials Statistician)
- Louise Cherrill (Clinical Trials Statistician)
- Oswald Dallimore (NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow)
- Jack Elkes (NIHR Doctoral Fellow and Research Associate)
- Lorna Hazell (Clinical Trials Statistician)
- Nicholas Johnson (Senior Statistician, Research Fellow, Surgery & Cancer Portfolio Lead)
- Rayka Malek (Clinical Trials Statistician)
- Consuelo Nohpal de la Rosa (Clinical Trials Statistician)
- Martin Orr (Clinical Trials Statistician)
- Hadis Rastad (Senior Clinical Trials Statistician, Research Fellow)
- Eleanor van Vogt (NIHR Doctoral Fellow and Research Assistant)
- Ed Waddingham (Senior Trial Statistician, Research Fellow, Infection Portfolio Lead)
- Hannah Wallace (NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow)
- Zohra Zenasni (Statistician)
Statistical Advisory Service
External to the UKCRC Clinical Trials Unit, but part of the wider ICTU department.
- Krupa Shukla (SAS Administrator and Course Tutor)
CarRES
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Temporary Clinical Trials Manager opportunity
We are looking for an experienced Clinical Trials Manager, preferably based in or near London, to join our supportive team on a temporary basis.
Based within the Department of Surgery and Cancer with the Imperial Vascular Unit at St Mary’s Hospital and at the Imperial Clinical Trials Unit (ICTU) in White City, you will be working with the Imperial Vascular Unit to deliver a long-term study to perform a multicentre randomised controlled trial in patients with uncomplicated type B aortic dissection, to answer the question whether thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) in the subacute phase in addition to best medical therapy is beneficial compared to standard treatment.
You will be responsible for all aspects of trial management, including close liaison with the Chief Investigator and Principal Investigators at other centres, management of the associated study and implementing and adapting established ICTU systems to ensure the trial is developed and conducted to the highest scientific and regulatory standards.
A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a biomedical/scientific field or related field and proven clinical trial/project management and monitoring experience gained in multi-centre, randomised trials is essential. You will need to show strong leadership and motivational skills as well as effective communication, organisational and time management skills.
This full-time temporary post is available from September 2026 and is offered for 3 months. Travel is expected between the Imperial College campuses and research sites.
For more information, please review the EARNEST TM (Temp) Job Description Aug 2026.pdf.
To apply for this position, please send your CV and covering letter to t.sasikaran@imperial.ac.uk (Operations Manager, ICTU).
Advert closing date: Tuesday, 25 August 2026
Interview date: Friday, 28 August 2026
Start date: ASAP, available from September
If you are interested, get in touch, we would love to hear from you!