In 1997, ICO (after the acronym in Catalan: Institut Català d’Oncologia – Catalan Institute of Oncology) created the Clinical Research Unit. This was meant to be dedicated exclusively to supervising and coordinating the Clinical Research within the Institute. This unit, which is under the Ico Management, has the following objectives:
To cooperate, on its own, in the research with patients at ICO
To support researchers
To manage therapeutic clinical trials
To create its own research lines
To cooperate actively in the programmes of translational research. Currently, we are working in fields such as oncolytic viruses, the programmes of development of new drugs, or angiogenesis
Research on statistics methodology
Activities of the Clinical Research Unit:
To evaluate the studies: valuation, designing our own studies and cost analysis
Advising the Centre Management
Coordination of the studies’ starts, their monitoring and development
Advising the researchers
Developing the tasks of the clinical research Nurse Staff
Development of statistics tools
Teaching
The clinicalresearch unit carries out two basic types of clinical trials:
Early phase clinical trials: phases I and II. These processes are done under the keys of a programme of new drugs development and at a pharmacocinetics laboratory.
Advanced clinical trial: phase II, phase III and phase IV
Tel: 93 260 73 32 / 73 33 / 78 22
Clinical Research Unit, main building 3rd. Floor
Institut Català d’Oncologia L’Hospitalet Av. Gran Via de l’Hospitalet nº 199-203. CP.08908
