DrGaia Kiru, MBA, PhD

Dr Gaia Kiru joined Imperial College in 2007 and she currently holds the position of Head of Operations & Partnerships at ICTU-Global, an Academic Research Organisation based within the Imperial Clinical Trials Unit (ICTU), in the School of Public Health within the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London.

Gaia has over 19 years experience of managing both academic and industry sponsored research projects, both in the UK and internationally - including study design, ethics and regulatory submissions, project management, relationship management, budget control, pharmacovigilance, monitoring, data management, drug supply and recruitment and retention of research participants. 

Although her background and expertise lies mainly in the cardiovascular field, she has worked in several therapeutic areas including medical devices, oncology, respiratory, orthopaedics, haematology and vaccines.