Professor Janet Darbyshire
Professor Janet Darbyshire
Director of the MRC Clinical Trials Unit
and Joint Director of the UK Clinical Research Network (UKCRN)
NIHR Clinical Research Network Coordinating Centre (NIHR CRN CC) London
Janet Darbyshire has been involved in the co-ordination of clinical trials since she joined the Medical Research Council following clinical training in respiratory medicine, working initially in tuberculosis and subsequently in HIV infection. Since 1998, she has been the Director of the MRC Clinical Trials Unit, which runs trials in cancer, HIV/AIDS and in many other disease areas and has extensive collaborations with the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. She is a member of many Trial Steering and Data Monitoring Committees and has worked closely with patient and carer groups, particularly in HIV infection and cancer. In 2005 she was appointed Joint Director, with Professor Peter Selby from the University of Leeds, of the UK Clinical Research Network now the NIHR Clinical Research Network. She is a member of the Ministerial Industry Strategy Group (MISG) Regulatory Workstream Steering Group and Advisory Panel and is on the Commission on Human Medicines.