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- Research Fellow in Trial Conduct Methodology
- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL
- Inst of Clinical Trials &Methodology
- Faculty of Pop Health Sciences
Macey is a researcher within the Methodology Conduct
Programme at MRC Clinical Trials Unit. She is funded by Health Data Research UK
to develop ways to enhance the conduct of clinical trials with routinely
collected healthcare data.
Initially trained as a medical biochemist, Macey has worked
in different roles within clinical trials (phase 1-4) in industry and academia,
beginning in data management, then to trial management, spending five years
coordinating large international breast cancer trials at Imperial College
London.
Between 2003 and 2015, Macey conducted research in paediatric
pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety, latterly as a Teaching and Research
Fellow at the Centre for Paediatric Pharmacy Research based at the School of
Pharmacy, University of London (now UCL School of Pharmacy). The Centre began in 2002 as a fruitful
collaboration between the School, the Institute of Child Health, and Great
Ormond Street Hospital for Children, to focus research activities specifically
in paediatric pharmacy. During her time at the School, Macey undertook doctoral
studies in the use and safety of antidepressants in young people using
routinely collected primary care data, and was awarded her PhD in September
2009. As a Teaching and Research Fellow,
Macey participated in four European Consortia to investigate paediatric
medicines use and safety, and represented the School in the European Network of
Centres for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacovigilance (ENCePP), participating
in the Working Group on Guidance for Data Integration; the guidance was later
incorporated into the ENCePP’s guide on methodological standards.
In 2015, Macey joined the Comprehensive Clinical Trials Unit
(CCTU) to manage a large UK multicentre trial in sexual health (HIPvac) in
collaboration with the Mortimer Market Centre. Following the successful
completion of HIPvac in 2018, Macey moved teams to set up the CCTU’s largest
ever trial to date (OPTIMAS) which aims to recruit approx. 3500 patients with
acute ischaemic stroke and atrial fibrillation from >100 hyperacute and
acute stroke units in the UK.
Macey began working at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit in
September 2019. Her research role within the Trial Conduct Methodology team
enables Macey to bring together her extensive experience and knowledge to
develop ways to improve access, quality and use of electronic healthcare
records to enhance the conduct of clinical trials.


Dr Macey Murray is an experienced researcher in different
roles within clinical trials (phase 1-4), pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety,
and has over 30 publications. She has specific research interests in trial
conduct methodology, infectious diseases, psychiatry, neurology, and paediatrics.
Macey has been a departmental undergraduate project
coordinator, taught research methods including epidemiology and research ethics
to Pharmacy students (undergraduates and taught postgraduates), and
successfully supervised many project students (MPharm, MSc, Erasmus, PhD).
Macey became a fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2012. For 2020-21, she
is co-lead of the Managing Open Trials module (ICTM0005) of the Clinical Trials
MSc at the Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology.
2015 | Graduate Certificate | Birkbeck College | |
2012 | ATQ03 - Recognised by the HEA as a Fellow | ||
2012 | Professional Certification | Institute of Education | |
2009 | Doctor of Philosophy | School of Pharmacy, University of London | |
1997 | Bachelor of Science | University of Surrey |