Sponsors & Exhibitors 2020
SPONSORS 2020
EXHIBITORS 2020
Roche UK - Headline Sponsor
Roche is a pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics, focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. They have created truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology and diseases of the central nervous system. In the UK Roche employ over 2,000 people who work hard every day to bring medicines and diagnostics to people who urgently need them. Roche work from bench to bedside - researching new medicines and diagnostics, running global clinical trials, and collaborating with the NHS to try to ensure rapid uptake and delivery of our products and services.
RQA- First Class Sponsor
The Research Quality Association (RQA) is a professional membership body dedicated to informing and advancing its members. They provide status and visibility for individuals engaged in the quality of research concerning pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, chemicals and medical devices. Since their inception in 1977 the Association has increased and evolved to reflect Regulatory changes, the growing impact of Regulatory inspection, and the ever-changing structure and needs of industry.
ESMS Global- Premium Sponsor
ESMS Global, formerly part of the Guy’s Poisons Unit, provides a 24-hour medical monitoring and emergency unblinding service for clinical trials, 7 days a week. With a global reach supporting over 300 studies covering more than 200k subjects in 80 countries and with over 45 languages. ESMS have worked tirelessly to establish a mechanism that is continuously available and works to exceed regulatory requirements.
The Royal College of Nursing- Clinical Award Sponsor
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is the voice of nursing across the UK and is the largest professional union of nursing staff in the world. The RCN promotes the interest of nurses and patients on a wide range of issues and helps shape healthcare policy by working closely with the UK Government and other national and international institutions, trade unions, professional bodies and voluntary organisations.
LineUpr- Digital Sponsor
LineUpr is a user-friendly platform for creating digital programmes – whether you are organising a small workshop or a large congress. LineUpr have helped more than 20,000 organisers reach their audiences so far and contributed to over 10,000 events. With flexible pricing they make smart digital events a reality for every budget.
CIRU
The Clinical Informatics Research Unit (CIRU) operates as an applied research and enterprise unit within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton. They launched the EDGE programme back in 2000 and since then they now provide clinical research solutions and services across the globe which advance data excellence, quality, management and improve research methods. Just some of the countries CIRU work with include the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, Belgium, South Africa and more.
The Royal College of Nursing
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is the voice of nursing across the UK and is the largest professional union of nursing staff in the world. The RCN promotes the interest of nurses and patients on a wide range of issues and helps shape healthcare policy by working closely with the UK Government and other national and international institutions, trade unions, professional bodies and voluntary organisations.
Qualogy
Qualogy provides contract archive services which are dedicated to the archive retention of Good Laboratory Practice (GLP), Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Pharmacovigilance (PV) and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) records only. The archive facilities were opened in 2002 and prides itself in not only meeting the regulatory requirements of archiving but for working closely with clients to provide an individual tailored service and for reducing archiving costs. Qualogy operate their own transport service which can collect material direct from Sponsor sites, CROs and Clinical sites within the UK and across Europe.
The Lincoln Institute for Health
The Lincoln Institute for Health (LIH) at the University of Lincoln undertakes research which spans the pathway from ‘bench to bedside’ and ‘cell to community’. Their research focus encompasses biomedicine and disease, drug design and development (bench), and practice and policy related research into quality improvement in health and social care.
RQA
The Research Quality Association (RQA) is a professional membership body dedicated to informing and advancing its members. They provide status and visibility for individuals engaged in the quality of research concerning pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, chemicals and medical devices. Since their inception in 1977 the Association has increased and evolved to reflect Regulatory changes, the growing impact of Regulatory inspection, and the ever-changing structure and needs of industry.
ESMS Global
ESMS Global, formerly part of the Guy’s Poisons Unit, provides a 24-hour medical monitoring and emergency unblinding service for clinical trials, 7 days a week. With a global reach supporting over 300 studies covering more than 200k subjects in 80 countries and with over 45 languages. ESMS have worked tirelessly to establish a mechanism that is continuously available and works to exceed regulatory requirements.
The Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health
The Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health has been set up to support cross-commonwealth collaboration and coordination of digital/eHealth work to support the benefits that digital platforms bring in delivering health systems. The hub is currently providing placements for 7 clinically trained fellows in digital health from Sri Lanka. The fellows are currently working within the Clinical Informatics Research Unit to learn about the use of digital technologies and approaches within the NHS. This will allow them to return to Sri Lanka with new skills and experiences before commencing medical consultant posts win hospitals, clinics, and the Ministry of Health.
Digital Learning- University of Southampton
The Digital Learning team offer educational and technical expertise that supports the University’s ambition to provide all students with an engaging and innovative high quality learning experiences. The team are working with colleagues in Medicine, Health Sciences, and staff at the Southampton General Hospital Emergency Department to capture a Major Trauma Resuscitation Simulation in 360-degree video. This can be viewed in a virtual reality headset, placing the viewer at the centre of the action. This pilot project aims to provide ground-breaking learning resources for Emergency Medicine students (and beyond) allowing them to experience complex and infrequent events as realistically as possible.
w: www.southampton.ac.uk/digital-learning
Specialist Talks
“Emergency Medical Response & Unblinding in Clinical Trials”
Joanna will be discussing what you need to have in place to ensure that medical emergencies in Clinical Trials and emergency unblinding requests are responded to effectively on a 24/7 basis.
“ThinkWrite: 5 tips for time-effective grant writing”
Surveys show writing large grant proposals takes an average of 30 people days, with only 1 in 5 being funded. How can we reduce the time spent and increase the success rates? Founder of long-established ThinkWrite training, Dr Pete Moore, will present 5 simple Grant Writing tips to help researchers produce stress-free, documents to substantially improve the chance of success.
“Quantum Perspectives in a New Era of Research”
UOL’s session will focus on embracing new ways of cross-disciplinary working and communal research approaches which recognises the creative potential of individuals, shared knowledge and understanding. The talk will present the results of the three year EFACCT study, conducted at NHS research sites across the UK and demonstrate the outcomes, including the TRACAT tool which maps trial complexity and operates as a workforce planning and capacity tool.
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