UoL
University of Liverpool
Founded as a college in 1881 and gained its royal charter in 1903, the University of Liverpool is ranked in the top 1% of universities worldwide and is a founding member of the Russell Group, a collaboration of twenty leading research-intensive universities, and the N8 Group for research collaboration. The University of Liverpool is renowned for its exceptional research contributions, with 81% of research rated world-leading and internationally excellent. Actively participating in over 300 EU-funded programs.
The Faculty of Health & Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool is one of UK's leading centres for health and life science research and education. The Faculty is unique as the only organisation of its kind to offer scientific and clinical education that spans the full range of biosciences, clinical medicine, health sciences, dentistry, veterinary science and tropical medicine. The Faculty of Health & Life Sciences has been involved in over 2000 research projects in the last 5 years, with a combined value in excess of £400M, 54 of which are Horizon 2020 programmes of work. In the DORIAN GRAY project, UoL leads WP11– Pilot two-arms randomised controlled Trial in patients with HF and MCI (COGIT-HF study).
doriangray@liverpool.ac.uk
Key Persons
Prof. Carrol Gamble
Full Professor and Director of the LCTC
Professor of Medical Statistics. Over 25 years’ of experience as a medical statistician working in clinical trials. Carrol is an NIHR Senior Investigator and Director of the Liverpool Clinical Trials Centre. Expertise evidenced by the successful delivery of multi-centre randomised controlled trials across a range of clinical conditions and settings including international trials. A strong track record of trials methodology research as part of the MRC funded Trials Methodology Research Partnership including a European training network.
Mr Ben Hardwick
Senior Trial Manager and Team Leader
Ben Hardwick works at the Liverpool Clinical Trials Centre as Senior Trial Manager and Team leader. Ben has 18 years of experience within a clinical trial research environment, predominantly in trial management. Ben has worked on adult and paediatric CTIMP and non-CTIMP trials in the UK and internationally across a broad range of areas including cardiovascular, rheumatology, ophthalmology, maternal health, hip fracture rehabilitation and neurology.
Mrs Kimberly Wen
International Pre Award Officer
With over 10 years of experience in financial accounting across diverse industry sectors, Ms Kimberly Wen brings expertise in month-end and year-end financial reporting, balance sheet reconciliation, budgeting, cash flow forecasting, costing, fixed asset management, taxation, and variance analysis.
Dr Riccardo Proietti
Associate Professor and Cardiologist
Riccardo Proietti graduated from the Catholic University of Rome in 1997. He then specialized in cardiology at the University of Perugia and achieved a Ph.D. degree in Cardiovascular Science at the University of Padua, Italy. He accomplished a fellowship in clinical electrophysiology at McGill University Canada. He worked as a Consultant Cardiologist at Luigi Sacco Hospital of Milan with a focus on cardiac pacing and electrophysiology for more than 10 years. He is certified in cardiac pacing by the European Heart Rhythm Society and in Clinical Electrophysiology by the Heart Rhythm Society. He has been a Senior Clinical Lecturer at the Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science at the University of Liverpool since July 2020. His research interests include arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation, pacemakers, cardiac electrophysiology, catheter ablation, clinical electrophysiology, and interventional electrophysiology.
Mrs. Sophie Hennessy
Trial Manager
Sophie is a Clinical Trial Manager at LCTC, University of Liverpool. With over 13 years' experience in trial management Sophie has managed multiple trials in a range of specialties including rare diseases, maternal health, hip fracture rehabilitation and cardiac rehabilitation in both adult and paediatric populations.