The NIHR/Wellcome Trust Imperial Clinical Research Facility has fully recruited to the Malaria vaccine trial, VAC053. The last volunteer recruited was vaccinated last week to complete recruitment. A total of 24 volunteers were recruited between the Imperial CRF and Jenner…
The NIHR/Wellcome Trust Imperial Clinical Research Facility (CRF) last week welcomed the enrolment of the first patient in a phase 1/2 trial which is studying a new approach to the therapy of haemophilia A using gene therapy. The investigational gene…
Everything we do in healthcare – every tablet that’s prescribed, every treatment that’s given and every test that’s performed – has to be first discovered and then thoroughly evaluated before it can be put into practice. This discovery and evaluation is…
Visitors to this year’s annual UK Clinical Research Facility network conference were able to catch up with some of the patient and public involvement projects that took place at the Imperial Clinical Research Facility over the past year. There were…
A study looking into two potential new vaccines for Ebola has opened at the Imperial Clinical Research Facility. Dr Saranya Sridhar from the Department of Medicine at Imperial and the Jenner Institute at Oxford, talks about the study over on the…
Back in March of this year over 80 patients and healthy volunteers taking part in research at the Imperial CRF completed our annual Research Participant Experience Survey. Responses to several of the questions were also included in the UK Clinical Research…
At the weekend the Imperial Clinical Research Facility took part in the Imperial Science Festival with a stand demonstrating how clinical trials work – using chocolate mini rolls. Nearly 500 people of all ages took part in the trial, which compared…
Come and find out about treatments, support and research findings for people with hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT). When: Saturday 18th April 2015, 10am-4pm Where: Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, W10 0HS Topics include: HHT Nosebleeds: triggers and treatments Iron losses…
The Imperial Clinical Research Facility, in partnership with the North West London Clinical Research Network, would like to invite you to a workshop where you’ll be able to find out about research into the causes and treatment of arthritis and how you…
Today the Imperial Clinical Research Facility is celebrating it’s third birthday. And over the past three years, we’ve gone from strength to strength, as the below statistics show. We’ve carried out over 168 studies, with several receiving significant international press…
