The Commercial Team at the Kings Health Partners Clinical Trials Office provides a streamlined service for commercial sponsors wishing to conduct clinical trials within the partner institutions to ensure that there are common, efficient processes for the set-up and administration of clinical trials, and to assist investigators wishing to engage in commercial trials. The office includes clinical quality management and a training function, enabling implementation and maintenance of common high standard processes across the partner institutions by ensuring that all members of staff involved in clinical research are fully equipped with the skills and knowledge required to conduct trials according to prevailing best clinical research practices.
The Commercial Team is led by Kirsty Hough, Commercial Trials Manager, who oversees a team of Clinical Trial Feasibility Associates, Clinical Trial Facilitators, Clinical Trial Agreement Associates, and Clinical Trial Finance Associates. Investigators also have the support of the Quality Team for training in GCP and management of quality issues.
KHPCTO have developed policies and processes to streamline clinical trials administration, quality and compliance. This activity hinges upon a collaboration agreement that delegates the management of these activities to the Director of KHPCTO.
The objectives of the Commercial Team are to provide:
speed and quality of trial feasibility
speed and quality of negotiation and sign off of agreements and budgets
transparent pricing of trials and distribution of income
efficiency of tracking and invoicing of trials
provision of Industry Manager function for L(S)CLRN
training of investigators and their teams in GCP and regulations
If you are seeking advice on the feasibility of a potential study, please contact: khpctofeasibility@kcl.ac.uk
If you are seeking advice on the setup and approvals of a new study, please contact: khpctofacilitator@kcl.ac.uk
If you are amending an existing study, please contact: khpctoamendments@kcl.ac.uk
To discuss commercial research financing, please contact: finance-khpcto@kcl.ac.uk
For any data queries, please contact: KHPCTO.CommercialData@kcl.ac.uk
For any queries relating to archiving, please contact Sabeena Johal: Sabeena.Johal@kcl.ac.uk
If you require staff-training for work in research, please see our training pages.
If you wish to speak with the Trials Manager, please contact Kirsty Hough: kirsty.hough@kcl.ac.uk
