Katharine Foster

Contact

• workRoom A 103 King's Meadow Campus,
  King's Meadow Campus
  Lenton Lane
  Nottingham
  NG7 2NR
  UK
• work0115 84 68626
• fax0115 84 68618
• kath.foster@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Katharine worked as a research scientist in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) and then the Institute for Animal Health, Berkshire following her PhD in Salmonella pathogenesis. She then moved into clinical trials in 2001, initially in oncology (colorectal cancer) for an academic trials unit in Oxford. After a brief spell in industry in the field of medical devices (orthopaedics), she moved back to academic trials in stroke medicine. Katharine joined the Centre for Evidence Based Dermatology in January 2007 as the PATCH Trial Manager. PATCH is a double-blind randomised controlled trial to investigate the effect of prophylactic antibiotics in the prevention of recurrence of cellulitis of the leg and is the first full clinical trial to come under the umbrella of the UK DCTN. The PATCH I trial reached its' recruitment target in December 2009 and the results should be available early soon.