Dr Louise Wood is Deputy Director/Head of NHS Research Infrastructure and Growth in the Research and Development Directorate of the Department of Health and a member of the Directorate’s Senior Management Team.
She has oversight responsibility for all the NIHR-funded clinical research infrastructure and the NIHR Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure (NOCRI). She is the prime point of contact in R&D for life sciences companies and trade associations, co-chairs the Ministerial Industry Strategy Group (MISG) Clinical Research Working Group and is involved in all the major Government/industry/NHS initiatives established to improve the research partnership between the NHS, its university partners and the life sciences industries.