
MRC head joins CPRD as director
pharmafile | January 6, 2015 | Appointment | Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing |Â Â MHRA, MRC, cprd, janet valentineÂ
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has announced an appointment of a new director for The Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD).
Dr Janet Valentine joins the service from the Medical Research Council where she was head of Population Health and Informatics. She has worked closely with the UK’s medical researchers for over a decade and takes with her knowledge of health research and data for an array of clinical and public health applications.
Prior to this she was deputy chief executive of the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC) working with the key stakeholders that shape clinical research in the UK.
CPRD is an electronic service providing anonymised health data for clinical research and was launched three years ago. It is jointly funded by the NHS National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and the MHRA.
Valentine says: “There is a wealth of opportunities for drug development and patient care offered by clinical research based on anonymised NHS and health related data. I am delighted to join CPRD and look forward to building on the excellent healthcare outputs generated from CPRD data.”
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