How do you describe your job when you meet people at a party?
What is ‘cutting-edge’ about your work?
New targeted cancer therapies to patients
What are the biggest implications your work will/could have in the future?
Personalised medicine for patients
Describe some of the highlights of your average day.
Completing a clinical trial
Describe briefly how your career has progressed to date.
From academic lab bench research to pharmaceutical clinical research
How is your job cross-disciplinary?
To drive clinical research requires a multi-disciplinary team from medics, scientists, study management, statisticians, data management, etc…
How do you see your field developing over the next 5-10 years?
Increasing focus on the science in clinical development
What’s the most unexpected thing about your job?
Those who don’t enjoy working in clinical research
What’s the biggest achievement of your career so far?
Being involved in launching a new drug