4 Post-doctoral position available within the SUPPORT project  (funded by EDCTP3):  action ‘Supporting the next generation of African researchers on preventing HIV pediatric mortality through a training network'

Deadline to apply: 3 October 2024

Upcoming Online Short Courses at the Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology. A few free places and discounts are offered to applicants from LMICs.

GMP for IMP

Date: Wednesday 6^th November 2024
Time: 10:00 – 15:00 UK TIME
Venue: via Zoom
Course Facilitator: Jo Burmester

INTENDED AUDIENCE
This training will provide participants with an understanding of the legislation and guidance covering manufacture and handling of investigational medicinal products in the EU.
The main document we focus on is Annexe 13 of Eudralex Volume 4 which covers requirements for manufacture of medicinal products specifically for use in a clinical trial setting. We also consider key GMP changes coming with the new EU Clinical Trials Regulation and associated guidelines.
We also cover the EU Guideline on IMPs and Non-IMPs – soon to be updated to Auxiliary Medicinal Products.
We also include an interactive workshop session looking at Site Management of IMP: Personnel, Premises and Processes.

For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/clinical-trials-and-methodology/study/short-courses/gmp-imp

An Introduction to Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials: Statistics for Non-Statisticians

Date: 4^th – 7^th November 2024
Time: 09:30 – 12:45 UK TIME
Venue: via Zoom
Course Facilitators: Laura Murphy & Roisin Connon, MRC CTU at UCL

INTENDED AUDIENCE
Non-statisticians working in clinical trials who only have a basic level of statistical knowledge at present and wish to be more familiar with the meanings of common statistical terms used in clinical trials and the interpretation of results.

PROGRAMME CONTENTS

• Basic descriptive statistics (refresher)
• Estimation and hypothesis testing
• Outcomes measures used in clinical trials
• Study design and randomisation
• Sample size calculations
• Survival analysis

For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/clinical-trials-and-methodology/education/short-courses/statistics-for-non-statisticians

Statistical and practical aspects of the design and analysis of Multi-Arm Multi-Stage (MAMS) Platform Trials

Date: Wednesday 20^th November 2024
Time: 12:00 – 17:00 UK TIME
Venue: via Zoom
Course Facilitators:  Dr Babak Choodari-Oskooei, Professor Mahesh Parmar, Elena Frangou

This workshop is aimed at trial statisticians, regulators and clinicians who want to understand more about the design and analysis of multi-arm multi-stage (MAMS) platform trials, or those who are new to the area.
The workshop aims to help participants:

•              Understand the motivation behind these designs

•              Learn how to choose the design parameters and stopping boundaries, both for lack-of-benefit and efficacy

•              Learn how to deal with overwhelming efficacy

•              Learn about stopping randomisation to research arm

•              Learn how to add a new research arm, and how to control Type I and II error rates in both pre-planned and unplanned addition of a new research arm

•              Learn about MAMS designs in which arms are ranked and selectively chosen to continue

•              Learn how the programs written in Stata software can be used to design MAMS trials with time-to-event and binary outcomes

For more information and to register, please visit: hhttps://www.ucl.ac.uk/clinical-trials-and-methodology/education/short-courses/MAMS

Penta training - Fungal Infections in Paediatrics

PentaTr@ining are currently accepting registrations for the updated online course: ‘Fungal Infections in Paediatrics’starting on the 16^th September.

Penta training

Penta is one of the most prominent scientific organisations dedicated to paediatric research – focusing on optimising prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases in children. Please click here for training opportunities: https://penta-id.org/education/pentatraining/

HIV Modelling Consortium

There are many free online courses on understanding modelling analyses and results and learning to code a model from scratch.

 Find out more

The Union - Sign up for a new free online course on how to develop a research grant proposal

The Union is launching a brand-new course this month to empower researchers in low or middle income countries (LMICs).

Find out more

MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL MAMS Clinic

This is an advisory service on how to optimise the design, implementation, and analysis of your multi-arm multi-stage (MAMS) randomised platform trial. We provide advice on how to maximise the efficient of testing several treatments for you and the community.

For more information please click here

Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs

Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs A six-part online course introducing the future of clinical trials Dates 31st January – 30th November 2024 Infectious diseases are an urgent global concern, yet traditional randomised controlled trials lag behind what is needed in terms ...READ MORE

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Online course for interpretation of CXRs in children with presumptive TB

Available free-of-charge to all audiences

The course is based on the Union’s Diagnostic CXR Atlas for Tuberculosis in Children: a Guide to chest X-ray Interpretation (2nd edition, 2022) that provides pragmatic guidance to healthcare professionals working in child tuberculosis. We aim to narrow the detection-treatment ...READ MORE

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Online MSc Clinical Trials Courses

The UCL Institute of Clinical Trials & Methodology (ICTM) online programmes for healthcare graduates.

Join one of these exciting online programmes for healthcare graduates (pharmacy, life sciences, medicine, nursing).READ MORE

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The Research Learning Lectures

Hosted by the NIHR Associate Principal Investigator (PI) Scheme

The Research Learning Lectures are a series of lectures for anyone in Health and Social Care interested in learning more about research hosted by the NIHR Associate Principal Investigator (PI) Scheme.READ MORE