The NIHR Imperial BRC has established a new ‘virtual’ Theme, acting as a focal and coordinating point for all active and proposed research initiatives currently being directed towards the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 infection, across Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
We are aiming for every patient with COVID-19 disease who is admitted to our hospitals to be given the opportunity to be part of one of the research trials or studies that we are running at Imperial (subject to eligibility and consent). You can find out more about ongoing clinical research projects here.
In addition to coordinating and prioritizing research studies, the NIHR Imperial BRC is providing additional infrastructure and funding where required to support the delivery of these activities, including research nurses, clinical research fellows, and access to tissue samples, clinical data, and other platforms.
The NIHR Health Informatics Collaborative (HIC) is actively engaged and the ICHT Research Informatics team are collating data and reports on suspected and actual COVID-19 patients, prototyping a real-time tool to support clinicians on the front-line and to support recruitment into studies.
The Colebrook Laboratory, funded by an NIHR capital award, is one of the focal points at Imperial for the collection and analysis of samples from patients with COVID-19.
Relevant Links:
Ongoing clinical studies
Accessing data for COVID-19 research
London IVD Diagnostics Pathway
Key Individuals
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Professor Graham Cooke
Professor of Infectious Diseases -
Professor Jonathan Weber
Dean, Faculty of Medicine -
Professor Mark Thursz
NIHR Imperial BRC Director -
Dr Aldo Faisal
Senior Lecturer in Neurotechnology -
Dr Bob Klaber
Director of strategy, research and innovation -
Dr Ceire Costelloe
Director of Global Digital Health Unit -
Dr Declan O'Regan
Honorary Reader & Consultant Radiologist -
Dr Prapa Kanagaratnam
Consultant Cardiologist -
Dr Samir Bhatt
Senior Lecturer -
Dr Stephen Brett
Reader in Critical Care -
Prof Mary Wells
Lead Research Nurse -
Professor Anthony Gordon
Chair in Anaesthesia and Critical Care -
Professor Chris Toumazou
Regius Professor of Engineering, Chair in Biomedical Circuit Design -
Professor Jamil Mayet
Consultant Cardiologist - Cardiovascular Theme Committee Member -
Professor Martin Wilkins
Vice Dean (Research) Faculty of Medicine -
Professor Paul Freemont
Chair in Protein Crystallography -
Professor Robin Shattock
Chair in Mucosal Infection and Immunity -
Professor Sarah Fidler
Professor of HIV medicine
