Dr Gaia Kiru Head of Operations & Partnerships, ICTU Global
Dr Gaia Kiru joined Imperial College in 2007 and currently holds the position of Head of Operations & Partnerships within the UKCRC registered Imperial Clinical Trials Unit (ICTU) in the School of Public Health within the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College.
Gaia has over 15 years experience of managing both academic and commercial clinical trials and studies, both in the UK and internationally - including protocol design, ethics and regulatory submissions, budget control, pharmacovigilance, monitoring, data management, drug supply and recruitment and retention of trial subjects.
Although her background and expertise lies mainly in the cardiovascular field, she has worked in several therapeutic areas including oncology, respiratory, orthopaedics, haematology and vaccines.