We're experts on the latest in:

  • Clinical trial design & conduct
  • Trial methodology
  • Statistics 
  • Digital health & data-enabled trials 
  • Health economics
  • Health informatics 
  • Real-world evidence 
  • Pragmatic & population-based trials 
  • Adaptive and other innovative trial designs 

ICTU brings together world-leading expertise in clinical trial design and conduct, statistics and methodology, real-world evidence, health informatics and health economics.

Based within the School of Public Health at 911今日黑料, our academics lead teams that are working with collaborators around the world to develop and apply innovative research methods that improve health and social care.

Meet our academic leads

Meet the clinical trial academics at ICTU and find out more about their expertise.

Health Economics

  • Professor Elena Pizzo

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    Professor of Health Economics and Evaluation

    Professor Pizzo specialises in health economics alongside clinical trials, with expertise in economic evaluation, health technology assessment and decision modelling. Her work supports evidence-based decision making across digital health, cancer, diagnostics, mental health and public health.

Trial Statistics

  • Professor Victoria Cornelius

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    Professor of Medical Statistics and Clinical Trial Methodology and Director, ICTU

    Professor Cornelius is a leading expert in medical statistics and innovative clinical trial designs. Her research focuses on adaptive methodologies, the evaluation of complex interventions and improving the analysis of safety outcomes to make trials more efficient and informative.

  • Dr Suzie Cro

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    Associate Professor in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials

    Dr Cro specialises in the design and analysis of clinical trials across diverse health conditions. Her methodological research focuses on estimands, missing data, sensitivity analyses and adaptive trial designs to strengthen the quality and interpretation of trial evidence.

  • Dr Agnieszka Lemanska

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    Assistant Professor in Digital Health and Clinical Trials

    Dr Lemanska leads ICTU's Digital Health Trial Portfolio, advancing the evaluation of digital interventions through innovative trial design. Her expertise includes real-world evidence, NHS data, trial emulation and quasi-experimental approaches.

  • Dr Rachel Phillips

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    Associate Professor in Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials

    Dr Phillips leads statistical innovation in clinical trials, with expertise in adaptive designs, adverse event analysis and trial methodology. Her work develops robust statistical approaches that improve the safety, efficiency and reliability of clinical trials research.

Health Informatics

  • Professor Ceire Costelloe

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    Professor of Health Informatics

    Professor Costelloe leads research at the intersection of health informatics, data science and real-world evidence. She develops and evaluates data-driven healthcare interventions using electronic patient records and advanced causal inference methods to strengthen clinical research.

Clinical Academics

  • Professor Chris Gale

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    Professor of Neonatal Medicine and Deputy Director, ICTU

    Professor Gale is an expert in neonatal and paediatric clinical trials, with a focus on pragmatic trial design and the use of routinely collected healthcare data. His research advances innovative approaches to evidence generation in newborn and child health.

  • Professor Neil Poulter

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    Chair in Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine and Founding Director, ICTU

    An internationally recognised leader in preventive cardiovascular medicine and global clinical trials, Professor Poulter has led landmark studies in hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. His expertise spans trial leadership, epidemiology and the development of evidence that shapes international clinical practice.

  • Professor Kausik Ray

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    Professor of Public Health and Director, ICTU Global

    Professor Ray is an internationally recognised preventive cardiologist who leads major global trials, registries and academic industry research programmes. His expertise spans cardiovascular prevention, lipid disorders, diabetes, biomarkers and translating research into policy and clinical practice.

Collaborate with ICTU

We work with academic, healthcare and industry partners in the UK and internationally to deliver innovative, high-impact research.

Whether you’re developing a new study, seeking methodological and clinical trial expertise, exploring innovative trial approaches, or building a strategic research partnership, ICTU can help you bring together the necessary expertise.

For collaboration inquiries, please reach us at ictu-adoptions@imperial.ac.uk.

The Collaborations Section is currently being updated. 

If your request falls under one of the Therapeutic areas details for the relevant email can be found on the Therapeutic Area Contact Details Page.

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