United Kingdom
Having worked in academic, health, biotech, scientific and NGO sectors, I bring experience of managing projects in various national and international settings over the last twenty years.
Project Manager for Padovax Phase I clinical trials of ChAdOx1-LassaJ vaccine, developped by Dame Professor Sarah Gilbert, in West Africa and UK (ViTaL01), overseen by Professor Maheshi Ramasamy. Coordinating a multi-disciplinary team including vaccine manufacturers, clinicians, nurses, immunologists, epidemiologists, statisticians, QA managers, monitors and data managers, to support CMC and progress towards the first in human LassaJ vaccine clinical trial, with funding from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). https://www.paediatrics.ox.ac.uk/About/team/naomi-gray/
Coordination of the Global Cell Atlas Ancestry Grant funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, at Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences. Providing strategic administrative, communications and research management. https://bit.ly/3PYwHf9 https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/research/research-groups/snelling
Managing NIHR Oxford BioMedical Research Centre Theme in Haematology and Stem cells for the final 18 months of the grant, with budget of £5M including training scheme, pump priming awards, biobank and clinical trials. Bringing together clinicians, allied health professionals and academic researchers. Strategic communications for inclusivity, stakeholder engagement and patient outreach. Accelerating the translational pathway through strategic alignment of clinical trials, biobanks, and industry partnerships.
• Management of finances, milestones and deliverables for the €3.9M Horizon 2020 Instruct-ULTRA project comprising fifteen European partners https://bit.ly/3wctVJD • Coordinate working groups for business planning and sustainability • Initiate contact with stakeholders in new European countries, South Asia and South Africa to pursue discussions and negotiations for ERIC membership • Design and implement communications and dissemination plan for Instruct-ERIC, including regularly representing Instruct at regional scientific conferences and meetings • Produce set of videos to introduce research centres on social media • Redesign Instruct-ERIC website and design for Covid19 Protein Portal, including User Experience (UX) principles and testing and Agile processes. • Hosted successful Women in Science Workshop May 2019, with 75 participants, and defined outcomes to develop further opportunities • Design GDPR strategy and manage implementation for the entire Instruct-ERIC consortium • Developed Instruct-ULTRA team, including creating two roles who I recruited, supervised and mentored: Communications Assistant and Project Associate
Coordination of Malaria Atlas Project, at Big Data Institute (BDI) for Prof Peter Gething and large team of statisticians, epidemiologists, and programmers to provide data for the WHO World Malaria Report and build an open access platform to share historical and real time malaria data. https://malariaatlas.org/