And another one! The TRANSFORM trial has opened to recruitment! 🎉 TRANSFORM is co-funded by Prostate Cancer UK and NIHR. This is the largest prostate cancer screening study in decades aiming to find the safest, most accurate and cost-effective approach to screening for prostate cancer.

🚀 And we're off! A huge congratulations to the Charing Cross Research Team on recruiting the first participant into the PANTHER platform trial.

Last night we celebrated our wonderful Director, Professor Victoria Cornelius at her inaugural lecture. She shared her academic journey highlighting the research she has been instrumental in where innovations in statistical methods have led to real changes in clinical trials and their outcomes.

Join us this evening to celebrate Prof Victoria Cornelius, Director of ICTU. Victoria will be sharing her academic journey through her research looking at examples where innovations in statistical methods have made real changes to clinical trials and the outcomes achieved.

Under pressure: smarter trials for better health outcomes

Join us for Professor Victoria Cornelius' inaugural lecture in person or online.

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📢 JOB ALERT. ICTU, Dept. of Surgery & Cancer are recruiting a Clinical Trials Monitor to join the team. This is an exciting opportunity to join a friendly multi-disciplinary team & play an important role on a number of large clinical trials. More details here: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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📢 As one of the next round of TRMP PhD students (below) you could join me, Clare Robinson, @averoniki.bsky.social and @marionkcampbell.bsky.social to work on developing a typology of research outputs in trials methodology, based at @wiphcem.bsky.social. Details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Developing a typology of research outputs in trials methodology at Queen Mary University of London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Developing a typology of research outputs in trials methodology at Queen Mary University of London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Richard Hooper@richardhooper.bsky.social · 12mo ago

📢 Interested in a PhD in clinical trials methodology? The Trials Methodology Research Partnership are advertising projects for PhDs starting Oct 2026, in statistics, health economics, epidemiology, social science, and more, hosted at one of 12 UK partner institutions. mrctmrpdtp.com/current-oppo...

📢 Interested in a PhD in clinical trials methodology? The Trials Methodology Research Partnership are advertising projects for PhDs starting Oct 2026, in statistics, health economics, epidemiology, social science, and more, hosted at one of 12 UK partner institutions. mrctmrpdtp.com/current-oppo...

Current Opportunities

We have an iCASE studentship available to start for the 2025/2026 academic year, and applications to our fifth round of recruitment to our DTP to start in October 2026 are now also open. Please see…

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ICTU team members Daphne Babalis & @rachpips.bsky.social along with Imperial colleagues Ricardo Ribas & Neena Modi from the Neonatal Data Analysis Unit travelled to The Children's Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine this week to discuss the COLLABORATE trial.

💬Got 5 mins? Help improve clinical trials by sharing your thoughts on health data collection. @anniestats.bsky.social a PhD researcher at Imperial has designed this survey with the help of her public involvement groups. 🔗 imperial.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #PPI #HealthEquity #ResearchVoices

And that's a wrap on this year's NIHR undergraduate internships. It's been a pleasure hosting three rising stars, they've each achieved so much in just 8 weeks. We can't wait to see what the future holds for them. Congratulations Alex, Mahima & Joe and good luck with the rest of your studies.

Thurs 4th September is the next webinar in our adverse event special series. Jeffrey Aronson & Igho Onakpoya will present their review of Clinical Study Reports & discuss the insights they offer when trying to quantify intervention benefits & harms. Sign up here: lnkd.in/ebMSPhds

Join us for Professor Victoria Cornelius' inaugural lecture - Under pressure: smarter trials for better health outcomes Thursday, 30 October 2025 17.30 - 18.30 GMT Register here: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19688...

Under pressure: smarter trials for better health outcomes

Join us for Professor Victoria Cornelius' inaugural lecture in person or online.

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One week left to apply for this exciting opportunity to join our growing statistics team @statsci.bsky.social. Closing 28th August 2025.

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🔊We're hiring! Imperial Clinical Trials Unit are looking for an ambitious senior statistician with experience in clinical trials & design & analysis of adaptive trials to lead a research programme in antimicrobial resistance & data-enabled trials. Full details: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Meet Alex Dixon, who is spending his summer experiencing life within ICTUs statistics and trial methodology group and conducting a research project with us as part of an NIHR undergraduate internship Find out what he has been up to here: www.statsci.co.uk/news

Our lovely statistics team are hiring. Further details 👇https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-jobs/description/index.php?jobId=25002&jobTitle=Senior+Statistician+%2F+Research+Fellow

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🔊We're hiring! We are looking for an ambitious senior statistician with experience in clinical trials and the design and analysis of adaptive trials to lead a research programme in antimicrobial resistance and support colleagues in data-enabled trials. Full details: lnkd.in/eWpwsH6s

Congratulations to the latest cohort of delegates completing the ICTU Contemporary Clinical Trials Course! It was great to hear all of their research ideas. We wish you all the best for the next steps in your career 🤩

📣 We're hiring! Our ICTU Cancer Trials Team are looking for a Deputy Operations Manager (South Kensington / hybrid) Closing date 25th May. Apply here: bit.ly/3H8Yk5o

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Meet @anniestats.bsky.social a PhD candidate in our clinical trials unit! She chose Imperial after working here as a statistician and "loving the environment." Get a glimpse into her day, and find out what it's like to be part of our clinical trials unit www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEuE...

Annie’s day in the life as a PhD student at Imperial College London

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Don’t miss out 📣 It's the last week to register for our 2nd Contemporary Clinical Trials Methodology Meeting, 2-3 April 2025. We will explore practical aspects of clinical trial 'hot topics,' plus practical insights, real-world examples & in-depth discussions: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/18598...

2nd Contemporary Clinical Trials Methodology Meeting

Putting contemporary clinical trials methodology into practice. Do you work in clinical trials and want to find out about the latest in the design and delivery of contemporary trials? Join us for ses...

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Our ICTU Statistician Louise-Rae Cherrill is at #CROI2025 for the presentation of exciting results of the ICTU-managed @riotrial.bsky.social with promising advances in #HIVTreatment driven by immune-based therapies www.imperial.ac.uk/news/261858/...

We're delighted to announce that Professor Chris Gale has joined as Deputy Director of Imperial Clinical Trials Unit. Find out more about the extensive experience Professor Gale brings to the department: www.imperial.ac.uk/news/261794/...

Prof Chris Gale appointed as Deputy Director, Imperial Clinical Trials Unit | Imperial News | Imperial College London

We are delighted to welcome Professor Chris Gale as the new Deputy Director of Imperial Clinical Trials Unit (ICTU).

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Season’s greetings from all of us at Imperial College Clinical Trials Unit 🎄 ICTU is closed from after Friday 20th to the 2nd of January. We’re looking forward to working with you again in the new year! 🥳

Our 2024 highlights include: launching the PANTHER platform trial, growing ICTU staff to 120+, hosting the NIHR Imperial & Partners Research Support Service, expanding our trial portfolio (ROMEO, WARRIORS, TRANSFORM) running internships & hosting our first clinical trials methodology meeting.

🎄All I want for Christmas…is a precisely defined research question! This festive paper by ICTU’s @suziecro.bsky.social & @rachpips.bsky.social uses Santa's reindeer to explain the importance of using #Estimands in clinical trials🦌🎅 trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

All I want for Christmas…is a precisely defined research question - Trials

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