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Jane Daniels

Professor of Clinical Trials, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

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Biography

Jane's early career was in molecular biology: first in allergology, then in relation to infectious diseases. She left the laboratory in 1998 and became a trial coordinator in the newly created Birmingham Clinical Trials Unit (BCTU). As an experienced academic trialist, she established the BCTU as the leading trials unit for women's health research in the UK.

In 2017, Jane moved to become Professor of Clinical Trials and Deputy Director of the Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit, where she has continued to develop her portfolio of research in women's health. She is the Chief Investigator for GBS3, a massive cluster randomised trial of maternal testing for Group B Streptococcus, to determine if a policy of universal testing will reduce neonatal infection. She is the Co-Chief Investigator for POISE and BLUSH, working with UCL and NCTU lead for the DEVA trial and STARSHIP trials.

Jane is on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and was formerly a Scientific Editor of the European Journal of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine. She is a member of the Research Advisory Committee for Wellbeing of Women.

Since 2025, Jane has been a general member of the NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Health funding panel.

Expertise Summary

Evaluation of diagnostic and screening tests, randomised trials of medical and surgical treatments, systematic reviews and meta-analysis. Her focus is within obstetrics, gynaecology and neonatalogy but enjoys working in any clinical area.

Teaching Summary

Annual supervision of BBMedSci and MPH students.

Contribution to NCTU short courses: Fundamentals of Clinical Trials, Online Introduction to Clinical Trials, Design and Conduct of High Quality Randomised Clinical Trials (China)

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