CTU support funding

The NIHR recognises the important and crucial role played by Clinical Trials Units (CTUs) in helping the design, development and delivery of quality research projects.  NIHR CTU Support Funding was introduced in 2008 as a mechanism to provide financial sustainability and support to units involved in NIHR research.

Applying for funding

All UKCRC registered Clinical Trials Units in England are potentially eligible to apply for support funding. Applications are invited periodically and information will be published here when a call is open.

There are no current calls for NIHR CTU Support Funding

NIHR supported Clinical Trial Units

We regard CTUs as an important component of any research application and funded project. CTUs can provide expertise and advice, and participate throughout the research process, from initial idea development through to project delivery and reporting.  

Researchers are strongly encouraged to contact a CTU early in the process of developing research ideas and preparing funding applications.

The units listed below receive NIHR CTU Support Funding to enable them to support NIHR research applications and projects, and so are especially interested in collaborating on NIHR research.

Clinical Trial Units

• Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit
• Bristol Clinical Trials & Evaluation Unit
• Bristol Randomised Trials Collaboration
• Cambridge Clinical Trials Unit
• The Comprehensive Clinical Trials Unit at UCL
• Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre (ICNARC)
• Imperial Clinical Trials Unit
• Keele Clinical Trials Unit
• King’s Clinical Trials Unit
• Leeds Clinical Trials Research Unit
• Leicester Clinical Trials Unit
• Liverpool Trials Collaborative
• London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Clinical Trials Unit
• Manchester Clinical Trials Unit
• Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit
• Norwich Clinical Trials Unit
• Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit
• Oxford NPEU Clinical Trials Unit
• Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit
• Peninsula Clinical Trials Unit
• Pragmatic Clinical Trials Unit
• PRIMENT Clinical Trials Unit
• Sheffield Clinical Trials Research Unit
• Southampton Clinical Trials Unit
• Warwick Clinical Trials Unit
• York Trials Unit

A number of people are involved to ensure that NIHR CTU Support Funding is appropriately utilised. This is done through the NIHR CTU Standing Advisory Committee, which considers NIHR CTU Support Funding applications and reviews the on-going work of the funded CTUs.

Members of the NIHR CTU Standing Advisory Committee are required to declare any interests which conflict, or may be considered to conflict, with NIHR CTU Support Funding business, or may be perceived as influencing decisions made in the course of their work within NIHR CTU Support Funding. All members are asked to complete the Register of Interest form (annually), which is intended to capture long term predictable interests that could be perceived to lead to conflicts of interest. These and other interests are judged on a case by case basis at individual meetings.

Our Director

Professor Steve Goodacre is the Chair of the NIHR Clinical Trials Unit Support Funding Standing Advisory Committee.

Steve is a clinical academic in emergency medicine and researcher in emergency care.  His professional activities include:- Chair, NIHR Health Technology Assessment Clinical Evaluation and Trials Board, NIHR Senior Investigator, Consulting Editor, Annals of Emergency Medicine and ScHARR Director of Research.

 Our committee members

• Professor Monica Busse - University of Cardiff
• Professor Cindy Cooper - University of Sheffield
• Professor Jane Daniels - University of Nottingham
• Professor Sandra Eldridge - Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
• Professor Jonathan Mant - University of Cambridge
• Professor John Norrie - University of Edinburgh
• Professor Sue Pavitt - University of Leeds
• Professor Gavin Perkins - University of Warwick
• Professor Ann Marie Swart- University of East Anglia