Spotlight
Professor John Chester, has recently left as co-Lead of Cardiff ECMC to take up a new position as Director of Research & Innovation at Alder Hey Children's Hospital. John shares his thoughts on his time working at Cardiff and in the ECMC network.
Dr Fiona Thomson is leaving Glasgow ECMC for a new role with AstraZenca. Here Fiona shares her thoughts on the ECMC network and working in both industry and academic.
As Professor Bob Brown prepares to retire we caught up with him as he reflected on his career and his involvement in the ECMC network.
The ECMC Programme Office has welcomed two new members to the team over the past few months: Catherine Cowell (Research Manager) and Lauren Griffiths (Early Phase Clinical Trials Business Development Manager). Learn more about them and the work they do as part of the team.
Catherine Cowell
We caught up with Ben Hood, CRUK Senior Research Nurse at Newcastle ECMC, to hear about his recent win at the RCNi Nurse Awards and all the amazing work he has been doing in Newcastle. He talks about the impact of COVID-19 on his role and the work being done to ensure patients are still able to take part in early phase trials.
To coincide with 'International Nurses Day' and 2020 being 'The Year of the Nurse', we spoke to two research nurses in the ECMC network to find out more about their roles and how COVID-19 has impacted them.
Almost 200 delegates from across the ECMC Network came together on 23 May 2019 for a chance to hear updates from the Programme Office, network with other ECMC members, and participate in some interesting discussions on complex trial design and patient referral.
Read our round up and gain access to the presentations from the day.
In January 2019 we held the seventh annual Junior Investigator Network Group (JING): Training the Next Generation event.
Over 100 people from across the ECMC network came to the two-day residential meeting in Cardiff, to learn more about early-phase trial design.
Experimental Cancer Trial Finder (EC Trial Finder) was successfully launched to the first limited user group on 15th November 2018 and will be available for the rest of the ECMC network in December 2018.
The PIONEER team in Glasgow has been working through the Combinations Alliance and having huge success in doing so. We caught up with them to find out more about their research.