Trial management team leader
University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Nicola Fenwick graduated with a BMedSc (Hons) from the University of Birmingham in 2000. She then went to work as a graduate technician at the Binding Site Ltd, where she was responsible for the development of diagnostic kits. She then returned to the University of Birmingham in 2004 as a Trial Monitor for the Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit (CRCTU).
In 2005 Nicola was appointed as a Trial Coordinator within CRCTU and was made responsible for the management of two large, multi-centre, clinical trials looking at the effects of chemotherapy regimens in breast cancer.
She was then appointed as a Senior Trial Coordinator in 2008, leading Leukemia and Lymphoma Research’s Early Phase Trials Team (LLR ETT). Since its inception the LLR ETT has supported over 15 UK Investigators apply for clinical grant funding for early phase clinical trials.
At the beginning of 2011 Nicola was appointed Team leader and helped secure an award to expand the LLR ETT and establish the LLR Therapy Acceleration Programme Team within CRCTU.
In May 2014 she was appointed Team Leader for the Children’s Cancer Trials Team at CRCTU. Helping to deliver the national portfolio of trials for children with cancer.