Explore practical resources that help clinical trial professionals plan and deliver clinical trials, including guidance on working with a CTU.
This roadmap helps chief investigators work effectively with a CTU, from developing a research idea and building a team through to trial delivery, completion and post-trial activities.
This series of videos can help you learn about working with a CTU as a chief investigator. The videos cover topics such as patient and public involvement and engagement, developing a research question and working with industry.
Our guidance for potential chief investigators (CIs) provides more information about our CTUs, what to expect from the CI role, and the benefits of partnering with CTUs for a successful trial. (PDF, 869 KB)
This free resource supports clinical trial professionals in planning and conducting clinical trials of digital health technologies (DHT), providing training on regulatory, ethical and practical aspects of DHT trial management.
Explore useful resources for chief investigators looking to build stronger relationships and collaborations between CTUs.
The patient-reported outcomes (PRO) in dose-finding trials framework provides guidance to support the meaningful use of PROs in early-phase trials.
Explore consensus-driven recommendations defining clear patient-reported outcome research objectives, including what to measure and why (OPTIMISE-ROR).
This practical toolkit provides recommendations for analysing and visualising patient-reported outcomes in early-phase dose-finding oncology trials (OPTIMISE-AR).
Here is some useful guidance and information for patient and public involvement representatives working with a CTU to support clinical trial delivery.
Explore our guidance to find out about becoming a patient and public involvement representative in one of our CTUs. (PDF 1.2 KB)
This series of videos can help you learn what a CTU is, how being involved works and the different roles a patient and public involvement representative may interact with while engaging with clinical studies.
This roadmap shows how clinicians, CTUs, patient and public involvement representatives and funders work together to deliver a clinical trial. (PDF 57 KB)
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We support a diverse pipeline of clinical and translation research and the clinical scientists committed to finding better ways to prevent, detect and treat cancer.
A toolkit with guidance, tips and templates to help you plan, deliver and evaluate your involvement activities.
Our clinical research funding team are here if you have any questions about working with CTUs.
