The Imperial Clinical Research Facility
The study will take place at the Imperial Clinical Research Facility. Please follow this link for the site map: Map of Hammersmith Campus [pdf].
Address
NIHR Imperial Clinical Research Facility
Imperial Centre for Translational and Experimental Medicine
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Hammersmith Hospital Campus
Du Cane Road
London W12 0HS
For information on how to travel to the Imperial Clinical Research Facility, please use the NIHR Imperial Clinical Research Facility webpage on the Imperial College London website.
ICRF
Recruiting now
We are looking for healthy volunteers aged 65 - 75 years old to take part in an RSV Challenge Study.
The study involves a screening visit and an inpatient quarantine stay, during which participants will be deliberately given RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) and carefully monitored for 11 days.
Depending on the study group, participants may undergo up to 3 bronchoscopy procedures, which will be fully explained by the study team.
If you are eligible and want to take part, you will be reimbursed up to £2,700 for your time and inconvenience, depending on the study group.
Contact us
To get in touch with the study team, please email: imperial.humanchallenge@nhs.net
Join our Research Registry!
The Chief Investigator of this study, Professor Chris Chiu, who works in the Department of Infectious Diseases at Imperial College London, has over 10 years of experience running vaccine and challenge studies for respiratory diseases such as Flu, RSV and COVID-19, in adults aged between 18-75years.
If this study isn’t for you, but you’d like to join our registry to be contacted about other studies we may be running, then please email us: flu-rsv-study@imperial.ac.uk