Our Expertise
Sheffield CTRU comprises a wide range of skilled and experienced staff, who all work together to ensure clinical trials at the university are designed and implemented to the highest level, and in line with national and international regulations.
Our Expertise
The Clinical Trials Research Unit (CTRU) provides high-quality support in running interventional, multi-centre clinical trials and other well-designed studies from the planning and design stage right through to analysis and reporting. We work closely with investigators, the research governance sponsor and other collaborators to ensure smooth running of all study stages. Our research has had a direct impact on the care of patients and health care services in the UK and worldwide.
Studies are complex, challenging, and often expensive. Our team has experience in wide range of clinical trials and studies and can provide advice and expertise on:
- Study design
- Study management
- Randomisation services
- Data management
- Statistical advice and analysis
- Health economics
- Quality assurance
- Study costing
- Public and patient involvement and engagement
- Equality, diversity and inclusion
Our Trials and Studies
The CTRU is currently working on a wide array of trials and studies, ranging from investigating hand splints to looking at new ways to potentially help physical recovery post-stroke.
In recent years the unit has also worked on multiple studies that have now completed, and is constantly working closely with clinicians and other healthcare experts to develop grant applications for new trials.
Information on all of these trials can be found here:
Research Support Service
The CTRU works closely with the NIHR Research Support Service (RSS) Hub - University of York and Partners - which is one of the eight national RSS hubs.