Industry and partners
Partner with us to leverage our broad clinical and scientific expertise and gain access to a patient population across all age groups through our integration with the NHS.
Our evidence based results
Data from 2024-2025
318
318 trials open to recruitment
70%
70% commercial trials
3,648
3,648 patients recruited
What we offer
Access to globally recognised key opinion leaders across the oncology landscape.
Connection to scientific, clinical, translational and operational expertise.
Protocol development, feasibility and site placement, including patient referrals.
Access to a broad patient population across all age groups, including teenage and young adults.
Visibility of your trial across our clinical network on the EC Trial Finder search tool.
Access to study delivery support through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).
Our support
Early advice
Consult with our network’s clinical academics to review the viability of your opportunity (eg discuss protocol development and study design).
Collaborations
Collaborate with experimental cancer medicine centres (ECMC) network clinicians for input on your scientific objectives and study delivery.
Site placements
Use our site identification services for fully-funded opportunities with defined study protocols in place. Paediatric studies will be assessed by the ECMC Clinical Trials Advisory Group prior to distribution across the network.
How to work with us
Step: 1
Engagement
Complete and submit our partnering form to share your opportunity.
Step: 2
Dissemination and feasibility
We will review and disseminate the opportunity across all ECMC sites, inviting expressions of interest from locations across the network.
Step: 3
Introductions
Once we’ve identified appropriate sites for your opportunity, we’ll introduce you as a sponsor to the relevant contacts.
Our programme office
We connect partners and industry to the right site to run trials.
Our programme office supports the set-up and delivery of clinical research studies and encourages collaboration across the network.
We are a single-entry point to our network – developing partnerships with sponsors and connecting them with the right sites to run their clinical trial.
Our capabilities
Extensive experience in innovative early-phase trials
We have a proven track record of delivering complex, early-phase oncology trials involving novel therapies, supported by comprehensive genomic profiling and extensive translational research expertise.
Our portfolio spans first-in-class and first-in-child studies, alongside precision medicine and complex innovative trial designs.
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EC Trial Finder
Our free clinical trial database designed to help you quickly find suitable early-phase trials within our network for your patients.
How we work
Learn more about how we support our network and our partners to successfully collaborate and deliver early-phase clinical trials.
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