Kim Down

Business Development Manager - National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR)

Kim Down - Business Development Manager - National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR)

Kim develops and maintains strategic relationships with global commercial and UK medical research charities and government agencies which fund clinical research. This includes facilitating key discussions and working collaboratively and giving advice on how they can use CRN services to ensure clinical studies are set up quickly and efficiently to recruit to time and target.

Kim has worked with the Clinical Research Network since 2010. Her previous role was in the Clinical Research Network’s Medical Directorate where she managed the INCLUDE project.  This was a four year project aiming to achieve better healthcare through more inclusive research.  She also managed the Remote Trial Delivery Project which acts on the lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic by giving researchers and study delivery teams processes and solutions for carrying out trials remotely.