Karen Smith

Business Development Officer

Health and Clinical Services, School of Medicine

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Contact

Email

k.t.smith@dundee.ac.uk

Phone

+44 (0)1382 383265

Biography

As TASC Development Manager, Karen will be working with both Tayside medical Science Centre (TASC) and Tayside Clinical Trials Unit (TCTU) teams. Her main responsibilities are oversight of the TASC pre-award process as well as formalising a TASC post-award process along with reviewing TCTU processes and documentation.

Karen graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Glasgow. Following a year of travel she joined the University of Dundee as a Research Technician. Karen has gone on to become a Senior Research Technician, Clinical Trial Monitor, Study Coordinator and then Clinical Trial Manager, working in a range of diseases such as Asthma, Rhinitis, COPD, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Breast Cancer and Sarcopenia, with over 15 years’ experience working in clinical research.