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.
Applications for approval of local research studies are being reviewed by the Imperial AHSC COVID-19 Research Committee weekly. If you wish to submit an application then please complete the Project Initiation Form and submit to Des Walsh.
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 Jane Apperley
Chair of the Department of Haematology -
Professor Jonathan Weber
Dean, Faculty of Medicine -
Professor Mark Thursz
NIHR Imperial BRC Director -
Professor Paul Elliott
Theme Lead, Informatics & Biobanking -
Professor Peter Openshaw
Theme Lead, Infection -
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 Christopher Chiu
Senior Clinical Research Fellow -
Dr Declan O'Regan
Honorary Reader & Consultant Radiologist -
Dr Nichola Cooper
Consultant Haematologist -
Dr Prapa Kanagaratnam
Consultant Cardiologist -
Dr Samir Bhatt
Senior Lecturer -
Dr Stephen Brett
Reader in Critical Care -
Mr Erik Mayer
Clinical Senior Lecturer -
Mr James Kinross
Clinical Senior Lecturer in Colorectal Surgery -
Prof Mary Wells
Lead Research Nurse -
Professor Alan Winston-OKeefe
Professor of Genito-Urinary Medicine -
Professor Alison Holmes
Professor of Infectious Diseases -
Professor Antony Gordon
Chair in Anaesthesia and Critical Care -
Professor Chris Toumazou
Regius Professor of Engineering, Chair in Biomedical Circuit Design -
Professor George Hanna
Professor of Surgical Sciences -
Professor Graham Taylor
Professor of Human Retrovirology -
Professor Helen Ward
Professor of Public Health and Director, PERC -
Professor Jamil Mayet
Consultant Cardiologist -
Professor Martin Wilkins
Director, NIHR Imperial CRF -
Professor Michael Levin
Chair in Paediatrics & International Child Health -
Professor Neil Ferguson
Professor of Mathematical Biology -
Professor Paul Aylin
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health -
Professor Paul Freemont
Chair in Protein Crystallography -
Professor Robin Shattock
Chair in Mucosal Infection and Immunity -
Professor Sarah Fidler
Professor of HIV medicine -
Professor Shiranee Sriskandan
Professor of Infectious Diseases -
Professor Wendy Barclay
Chair in Influenza Virology -
Professor Xiao-Ning Xu
Chair in Human Immunology
