The CTEU plays an active role in the research programme of the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust and the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London. It offers advice and support on study design, statistical issues, study co-ordination and data management to many research teams within the Trust and the Institute as well as external academic groups.
The CTEU also works with a large collaborative group of UK and international investigators. It has a contact network of 350 hospitals in 25 countries including 60 hospitals in the UK. Established academic links include collaboration with the following research units:
- Department of Medical Statistics and Department of Health Policy and Planning, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
- Centre for Statistics in Medicine, University of Oxford, UK
- Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, UK
- Health Economics Research Group, Brunel University, UK
- Clinical Trials Unit, Medical Research Council, London, UK
- MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK
- Nuffield Institute, University of York, UK
- Maryland Medical Research Institute, MA, USA
- Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology, São Paulo, Brazil
- Hospital Italiano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Postgraduate Medical Institute, Grochowski Hospital, Warsaw, Poland
- Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
- Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford, UK
- Cardiovascular Research Unit, University of Sheffield, UK
- Uppsala Clinical Research, Uppsala University, Sweden
- BHF Heart Research Centre, Leeds General Infirmary, UK
- Canadian Cardiovascular Collaboration, Hamilton, Canada
In addition, the CTEU has important links with pharmaceutical companies and medical device manufacturers in the UK, Europe and North America including:
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd
- Amgen Ltd
- Boehringer Ingelheim
- Boston Scientific, Inc.
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Galen Ltd.
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Guidant Corp.
- Hoffman La Roche
- Medtronic, Inc.
- Merck Sharp and Dohme
- Novo Nordisk
- Sanofi-Aventis
