Mrs Louise Hopkins BSc, MRes

Mrs Louise Hopkins

Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
Trial Management Team Leader

Contact details

Address
Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit (CRCTU)
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Louise is the Trial Management Team Leader for the Children’s Cancer Trials Team – A Team (CCTT-A) at the Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit (CRCTU).

Qualifications

  • MRes in Clinical Psychology, University of Birmingham, 2012
  • BSc in Psychology, University of Wolverhampton, 2009

Biography

Louise graduated with a 2:1 BSc (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Wolverhampton in 2009 and passed a MRes Clinical Psychology course at the University of Birmingham in 2012. Louise joined the CRCTU as a Trial Coordinator in 2014 in the Haematology Team, working in early phase adult haematology trials. Louise progressed  through the roles of Senior Trial Coordinator within the same team in 2016 before being appointed as a Trial Management Team Leader the Children’s Cancer Trials Team in 2023.

Research

Current Projects 

Contributing to the design, set-up and management of clinical trials within paediatric cancer.

Publications

Loke J, Upasani V, Gaskell C, Fox S, Fletcher R, Thomas C, Hopkins L, Kumari A, Tang T, Yafai E, Boucher R, Homer V, Toth A, Chan YLT, Randall K, Rider T, O’Nions J, Drew V, Pillai A, Dungarwalla M, Murray D, Khan A, Wandroo F, Moore S, Kirshnamurthy P, Huang YWJ, Knapper S, Byrne J, Zhao R, Craddock C, Parry H, Moss P, Stanworth SJ, Lowe DM. (2023), Defective T-cell response to COVID-19 vaccination in acute myeloid leukaemia and myelodysplastic syndromes. British Journal of Haematology, 202:498-503.

Loke J, Metzner M, Boucher R, Jackson A, Hopkins L, Pavlu J, Tholouli E, Drummond M, Peniket A, Bishop R, Fox S, Vyas P, Craddock C. (2022), Combination romidepsin and azacitidine therapy is well tolerated and clinically active in adults with high-risk acute myeloid leukaemia ineligible for intensive chemotherapy. British Journal of Haematology, 196(2):368-73. 

Fox CP, Ali AS, McIlroy G, Thust S, Martinez-Calle N, Jackson AE, Hopkins LM, Thomas CM, Kassam S, Wright J, Chaganti S, Smith J, Chau I, Culligan D, Linton KM, Collins GP, Ferreri AJM, Lewis D, Davies AJ, Johnson R, Auer DP, Cwynarski K. (2021), A phase 1/2 study of thiotepa-based immunochemotherapy in relapsed/refractory primary CNS lymphoma: the TIER trial. Blood Advances, 5(20):4073.

Eyre TA, Hildyard C, Hamblin A, Ali AS, Houlton A, Hopkins L, Royston D, Linton KM, Pettitt A, Rule S, Cwynarski K, Barrington SF, Warbey V, Wrench D, Barrans S, Hirst CS, Panchal A, Roudier MP, Harrington EA, Davies A, Collins GP. (2019), A phase II study to assess the safety and efficacy of the dual mTORC1/2 inhibitor vistusertib in relapsed, refractory DLBCL. Hematological Oncology, 37(4):352-59.

Craddock C, Houlton AE, Quek LS, Ferguson P, Gbandi E, Roberts C, Metzner M, Garcia-Martin N, Kennedy A, Hamblin A, Raghavan M, Nagra S, Dudley L, Wheatley K, McMullin MF, Pillai SP, Kelly RJ, Siddique S, Dennis M, Cavenagh JD, Vyas P. (2017), Outcome of Azacitidine Therapy in Acute Myeloid Leukemia is not Improved by Concurrent Vorinostat Therapy but is Predicted by a Diagnostic Molecular Signature. Clinical Cancer Research, 23:6430-40. 

Dudley L, Gamble C, Preston J, Buck D, The EPIC Patient Advisory Group, Hanley B, Williamson P, Young B. (2015), What difference does patient and public involvement make and what are its pathways to impact? Qualitative study of patients and researchers from a cohort of randomised clinical trials. PLOS ONE, 10(6):e0128817 

Dudley L, Gamble C, Allam A, Bell P, Buck D, Goodare H, Hanley B, Preston J, Walker A, Williamson P, Young B. (2015), A little more conversation please? Qualitative study of researchers’ and patients’ interview accounts of training for patient and public involvement in clinical trials. Trials, 16:190. DOI 10.1186/s13063-015-0667-4 

Buck D, Gamble C, Dudley L, Preston J, Hanley B, Williamson PR, Young B. (2014), The EPIC Patient Advisory Group. From plans to actions in patient and public involvement: qualitative study of documented plans and the accounts of researchers and patients sampled from a cohort of clinical trials. BMJ Open, 4:e006400 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2014-006400 

Gamble C, Dudley L, Allam A, Bell P, Buck D, Goodare H, Hanley B, Preston J, Walker A, Williamson P, Young B. (2014), Patient and public involvement in the early stages of clinical trial development: a systematic cohort investigation. BMJ Open, 4:e005234. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005234