Trials community celebrates International Clinical Trials Day

19 May 2017

Today marks International Clinical Trials Day, a global ACRP initiative intended to educate and inform the wider public about work being done in the clinical trials community.

Saturday will be the 270th anniversary of James Lind’s famous study aboard HMS Salisbury, which began on 20 May 1747 and resulted in the use of citrus fruits as a treatment for scurvy, something considered by many to be the first randomised clinical trial.

To mark the occasion, the Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology (ICTM) is hosting a programme of talks at UCL. The event includes presentations from the CTC group lead for haematology and brain trials Laura Clifton-Hadley, as well as CTC statisticians Amy Kirkwood and Hakim-Moulay Dehbi.

More details about the day, and on Lind’s original clinical trial, can be found here.

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