About us

Joint Research and Enterprise Services supports, manages and facilitates research and enterprise across St George’s, University of London and St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

We support academics and clinicians at St George’s University and Trust with the full range of research and enterprise activities, providing a professional and joined-up service in areas including grant applications, clinical trials, intellectual property, consultancy and research finance.

We work with our research funders and collaborators in industry, charities, government and other sectors to facilitate access to St George’s expertise in research and enterprise.

Teams and contact details

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Research Funding

The Research Funding team supports research funding opportunities, grant applications and the financial management of awarded research grants and contracts.

Email the team at research@sgul.ac.uk.

Details of Research Funding Team
Position	Name	Contact details	Areas covered	Contact for...
Head of Research Funding	Brad Robinson (Maternity Cover)	Email	All	Overall research funding and finance issues.
Research Funding Manager (Pre-Award)	Adam Bales	Email	All	Overall pre-award queries relating to grant applications and award set up for both St George's University and Trust.
Research Funding Officers (Pre-Award)	Yemi Adebiyi	Email	Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology, Cardiology CAG, Chest Medicine, Diabetes, Emergency Department, Gastroenterology, Gum, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Renal Medicine, Rheumatology, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Vascular Surgery, Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Population Health Research Institute and Institute of Medical and Biomedical Education.	Grant application costing, advice and support for both St George's, University of London and St George's Trust.
Research Funding Officers (Pre-Award)	Oliver Palmer	Email	Pain Management, Critical Care, Dermatology and Lymphoedema, Fetal Medicine Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics, General Surgery, Genetics, Haematology, Hepatology, Oncological Medicine, Stroke, Urology, Infection and Immunity Research Institute.
Research Funding Manager (Post award) (St George's, University of London)	John Burkhill	Email	All	Overall post award queries relating to financial management of research grants for St George's, University of London.
Research Funding Officers (Post award)	Tej Daswani	Email	Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Population Health Research Institute, and Institute of Medical and Biomedical Education	Financial management of grants, including invoicing, staff appointments and financial statements for St George's, University of London held grants.
Research Funding Officers (Post award)	Estela Papagianni	Email	Infection and Immunity Research Institute
R&D Finance Manager (St George's Trust)	Lewis Russell	Email	All	Finance management queries for St George’s Trust and Clinical Research Network finance.
R&D Assistant Finance and Research Projects Manager	Adil Malik	Email	Cardiac Surgery, Cardiology and CAG, Chest Medicine, Diabetes, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Renal Medicine, Rheumatology, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Vascular Surgery, Metabolic, Endocrine and Diabetes, Ageing, Respiratory Disorders, Injuries and Emergencies, Hepatology, Gastroenterology, Musculoskeletal Disorders, Dermatology, Infectious Diseases, Non-Malignant Haematology.	Support for St George’s Trust-managed research grants and central funds
	Hodhayfa Fattouche (Maternity Cover)	Email	Critical Care, Dermatology and Lymphoedema, Fetal Medicine Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Hepatology, Infection, Stroke, Clinical Genetics, Reproductive Health and Childbirth, Oncology, Stroke.
	Aisha Gardee	Email	Pain Management, Emergency Department, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Genetics, Gum, Haematology, Oncological Medicine, Radiology, Urology.
Research Strategy and Development Manager	Betty Woessner	Email	All	Advice on St George’s-wide research opportunities. Open access and bridging funding.
Research Funding Manager (EU Funding)	Jane Boland	Email	All	European Commission grant applications and post award management.

Research Governance and Delivery

The Research Governance and Delivery team supports clinical research initiation, research governance, research integrity and St George’s research ethics committee.

Email the team at:

researchgovernance@sgul.ac.uk for generic clinical research queries including commercially sponsored trials
sponsor@sgul.ac.uk for any St George’s sponsored regulated drug and or device trials and or international (non-UK) clinical research
researchamendments@sgul.ac.uk for any post-approval amendments to clinical research studies hosted at St Georges
sgulREC@sgul.ac.uk for any internal SGUL projects which do not require national/external ethics approval, and any SGUL student research.

Research Governance and Delivery Team details
Position	Name	Contact details	Areas covered	Contact for...
Head of Research Governance and Delivery	Subhir Bedi	Email	All	Overall clinical research governance, ethics, legislative and delivery oversight for St George’s University and St Georges University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Authorised clinical trials contract signatory.
Clinical Research Development and Delivery Manager	Kate Chapman	Email	All	Advice on clinical trials horizon scanning, NIHR regional Clinical Research Network funding, clinical research performance, set up and delivery at St Georges.
Deputy Research Development and Delivery Manager	VACANT	Email	Oncology	Management of clinical research study set up and feasibility
Research Governance and Facilitation Officers	Ghazal Ebrat	Email	Critical Care and Anaesthesia Gastro Hepatology Cardiology Stroke Diabetes and M&E Dermatology Respiratory Surgery including vascular surgery and ENT.	Support in expression of interest/feasibility/study set up for all clinical studies sponsored outside St George’s (commercial and other Trust/university sponsored) and non-interventional clinical studies sponsored by St George’s – including costing and negotiation of clinical trial contracts and associated confidentiality agreements. Advice and guidance on clinical research management issues and practice.
	Frankie Temple-Brown	Email	Neurology (including neurosurgery) Renal Rheumatology T&O Genetics.
	Alisa Azhar	Email	Infection (including Covid-19) Children (including all PIDRG studies) Reproductive health and childbirth, Haematology A&E Public health and ageing Health services research Primary care.
Assistant Research Governance and Facilitation Officer	Lauren Dowdie	Email
Assistant Research Governance and Facilitation Officer	Bisola Kareem	Email	Critical Care and Anaesthesia Gastro Hepatology Cardiology Stroke Diabetes and M&E Dermatology Respiratory Surgery including vascular surgery and ENT.
Research Development and Governance Manager	Georgia Bullock	Email	All	Support with protocol development, sponsorship and set up for interventional clinical trials led by St George’s. Study management of St George’s-sponsored interventional clinical trials. Named Clinical Trials Archivist for St George's Clinical Research.
Clinical Research Associate	Shivani Patel	Email	All	Study management and oversight of St George’s University-led international (non-UK) research.
	Melissa Gunc	Email
	VACANT	Email
Research Performance and Information Officer	Sukhdeep Dhesi		All	NIHR recruitment and systems & clinical research performance data.
Research Ethics and Integrity Officer	Chantelle Simpson	Email	All	St George’s University (internal) Research Ethics Committee submission and review. St George’s University student study sponsorship review.
Audit Officer	Stefanie Chan	Email	All	Clinical research auditing.

Enterprise and Innovation

The Enterprise and Innovation team supports industry-funded research projects, intellectual property identification and licensing, spin-out companies and consultancy.

Email the team at enterprise@sgul.ac.uk

Position	Name	Contact details	Contact for…
Head of Enterprise, Innovation and Contracts	Ambalika Batra	Email	Point of contact for external organisation, industry engagement/business development (staff and students), work placements/industry experience (staff and students) entrepreneurship/business ideas (staff and students), intellectual property queries and advice, industry contracts, external facilities and equipment use.
Senior Enterprise & Innovation Manager	Rebecca Paulraj	Email	Industry Partnership Management, technology commercialisation, start-up support and student enterprise, external funding and business development.
Senior IP Commercialisation Manager	Khalid Shukri	Email	Enterprise programmes, industry engagement/business development (staff and students), intellectual property management, new ideas, inventions, technologies, patenting and technology transfer/commercialisation, external fundraising, pathways to impact and impact statements and consultancy.
Enterprise & Intellectual Property Officer	Beth Richards	Email	General enterprise and innovation queries, confidential disclosure agreements (CDAs/NDAs), material transfer agreements, consultancy, enterprise programmes and intellectual property administration.

Contracts

The Research and Enterprise Contracts team supports the drafting, negotiation, amendment, and execution of contracts in JRES.

Contact the contracts team for any queries or support you may need at contracts@sgul.ac.uk.

Position	Name	Contact details	Contact for...
Contracts Manager	Christine Danquah	Email	All contracts advice, support and negotiation, including contracts relating to research, clinical trials, commercialisation, and other research/enterprise services.
Contracts Officer	Gabriel Chin	Email	Confidentiality Agreement, Material Transfer Agreements, Data Transfer Agreements, amendments to contracts.
Contracts Officer	Stanislavs Vasiljevs	Email

Management

Position	Name	Contact details	Areas covered	Contact for…
Director, Joint Research and Enterprise Services	Mark Cranmer	Email 02087254376	All	Strategic issues, research and enterprise.
Operations Officer	Vehisshia Cooper (Maternity Cover)	Email 02087254077	All	Administration, Procedural and Policy queries, Communications, Web issues, Requisitions.
TACRI Manager	Ganga Gopinathan	Email	All	Contact for the Translational and Clinical Research Institute (TACRI), a joint virtual institute between St. George’s NHS Foundation Trust and SGUL to support clinical research and researchers across both organisations.

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