ICTU staff
ICTU is divided into sections, with oversight from the Executive Committee team.
Please expand below for further details.
Senior Management
Executive Committee team
The ICTU Executive Committee team consists of the Director, Deputy Director, Senior Clinical Academic Lead, Business Development Manager and the Heads of Sections.
- Dr Victoria Cornelius (Director of ICTU)
- Professor Neil Poulter (Senior Clinical Academic Lead)
- Professor Kosh Ray (Deputy Director of ICTU)
- Dr Daphne Babalis (Director of Operations)
- Dr Graham Wheeler (Acting Head of Clinical Trial Statistics)
- Amanda Bravery (Head of ICT at ICTU)
- Dr Gaia Kiru (Head of Commercial Operations & Partnerships)
- Lauren Noto (Departmental Manager)
- Eloise Britten (QA Manager)
- Claire Smith (Business & Development Manager)
Administration
Departmental Administration
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 Professor Neil Poulter)
Commercial
ICTU-Global
Head of Section
- Professor Kosh Ray (Director of ICTU-Global)
Commercial Team
- Gaia Kiru (Head of Operations & Partnerships)
- Jennifer Murphy (Deputy Operations Manager)
- Jess Smith (Deputy Operations Manager)
- Claire Brennan (Clinical Trial Manager)
- Lisa Feng (Clinical Trial Monitor)
- Felicia Frost (Clinical Trial Administrator)
- Kiran Peddireddi (Clinical Trial Administrator)
- Sima Toopchiani (Clinical Trial Monitor)
Clinical Data Systems
Clinical Data Systems
Head of Section
- Amanda Bravery (Head of ICT, ICTU)
Data Management
- Vivienne Okona-Mensah (Senior Data Manager)
- Safa Anwar (Data Manager)
Validation and Test Team
- Francesco Lala (Deputy Head of CDS, Validation and Test Team Lead)
- Dinesh Sivakumar (eCRF Test Analyst)
- Adina Ion (eCRF Test Analyst)
- Tolulope Sokunle (eCRF Test Analyst)
- Nayan Das (Production Support Team Lead)
- Kayode Disu (Senior Production Support Analyst)
- Abinithya Udayakumaran (Development Team Lead)
- Smita Das (eCRF Designer and Developer)
- Zala Noorzad (eCRF Designer and Developer)
You can find further information about the Clinical Data Systems team on their webpage.
OPERATIONS
Academic Operations
Head of Section
- Dr Daphne Babalis (Director of Operations)
Operations managers
- Dr Claire Smith (Operations & Business Development Manager)
- Mrs Mary Cross (Operations Manager)
- Dr Ana Boshoff (Operations Manager)
- Mrs Natalia Klimowska-Nassar (Operations Manager, ICTU-Surgery)
- Philip Badman (CRUK Centre Clinical Trials Operations Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Thiagarajah Sasikaran (Deputy Operations Manager, ICTU-Surgery)
- Lee Webber (Deputy CRUK Centre Clinical Trials Operations Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
Operational trial staff
The majority of 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.
- Aisha Anjum (Clinical Trial Manager)
- Janis Best-Lane (Clinical Trial Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Aaron Clarke (Clinical Trial Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Margarita Durkina (Clinical Trial Manager/ Monitor)
- Elizabeth Fagbodun (Clinical Trial Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Marta Gielniewska (Clinical Trial Monitor)
- Mariam Habib (Clinical Trial Manager)
- Sean Harrison (Clinical Trial Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Aine Hogan (Clinical Trial Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Milaana Jacob (Clinical Trial Manager/ Monitor)
- Puja Jadav (Clinical Trial Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer - maternity leave)
- Jodi Meyerowitz (Clinical Trial Manager)
- Marie Miller (Public Involvement Coordinator)
- Joseph Montebello (Clinical Trial Manager/ Monitor)
- Cristina Morrell (Clinical Trials Administrator)
- Natalia Olejniczak (Clinical Trial Monitor)
- Meena Reddi (Clinical Trial Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Lucy Stronach (Clinical Trial Monitor, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Johanna Sukumar (Clinical Trial Manager, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Marta Szajna (Clinical Trial Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
- Genee Tolentino (Clinical Trials Administrator)
- Alex Williams (Clinical Trial Coordinator, Department of Surgery & Cancer)
Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance
- Eloise Britten (Quality Assurance Manager)
- Jonathan Dao (Quality Assurance Administrator)
Statistics
Clinical Trial Statistics
Heads of Section
- Dr Graham Wheeler (Acting Head of Statistics)
ICTU Clinical Trial Statistics Team
- Elli Bourmpaki (Statistician)
- Suzie Cro (Statistician, Research Fellow)
- Jack Elkes (Statistician)
- Emanuela Falaschetti (Statistician, Research Fellow)
- Leila Janani (Statistician, Research Fellow)
- Nicholas Johnson (Statistician, Research Fellow)
- Consuelo Nohpal de la Rosa (Statistician)
- Matyas Szigeti (Statistician)
- Eleanor van Vogt (NIHR Pre-Doctoral Fellow)
- Annie Wright (Statistician)
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)