EDGEY’s Trip
to South Africa
EDGEY and CIRU Head of Trading Services, Tim Gibbons landed in Cape Town, South Africa in early September to visit the University of Cape Town (UCT) Clinical Research Centre and his long-standing friend, Annemie Stewart.
University of Cape Town were the first group to convert from EDGE 2 to EDGE 3 in February this year. Since February Annemie has been working with her Data Manager, Lwazi Mhlanti to transition some of the spreadsheet trial trackers from Excel to EDGE. They’re now planning to get stuck in with using some of the Finance recording, apportioning and invoices tools over the coming months. As of September, UCT have 43 trials and trial sites across the African continent under one single system, (EDGE), for the first time.
While EDGEY was in town he met a newcomer to EDGE, Linda Mbuthini, Clinical Trials Data Manager for the University of Cape Town’s Lung Institute. The Lung Institute are working to develop their use of EDGE providing support to an established data capture team and interacting with field Nurses and Senior Researchers across the continent. They’ll be using the newly developed EDGE processes for their Tuberculosis study opening in South Africa, Zanzibar, and Zimbabwe this winter.
We are looking forward to welcoming the University of Cape town team to our EDGE conference in March 2024.
CIRU’s Tim Gibbons with UCT EDGE users