Clinical Trials Unit (CTU)

In November 2010, the Clinical Trials Unit was opened within the Oak Road patient treatment centre. With the primary purpose of facilitating the conduct of early phase research, the unit is also home to many firsts in human studies.

As well as early phase trials, we conduct later phase research across a range of disease areas, which may include complex treatment regimes or complicated translational components. All our clinical research teams have access to this facility.

The trial activity we cover, includes; trial set-up and monitoring, patient recruitment, patient assessment, treatment administration, sampling for pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamincs, biomarkers, pre-analytic sample processing and storage of samples. The unit also has an outpatient area, phlebotomy area, day-care treatment area, and a pre-analytic processing laboratory. There is also a six bedded inpatient facility currently under development, and should hopefully be operational from September 2011.