Dr Martin O’Kane | Acting Head of the Clinical Trials Unit
MHRA

Dr Martin O'Kane MRPharmS is Acting Head of the Clinical Trials Unit at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).  He studied pharmacy at University of Aston and after completing a PhD and a post-doctorate research project at the University of Glasgow, he moved to Japan to work within the pharmaceutical industry. He joined the MHRA in 2005 as a Pharmacopoeial Scientist with the British Pharmacopoeia and was a member of the European Pharmacopoeia Commission’s Working Party on Cell Therapy Products.  He moved to the Clinical Trials Unit as a Pharmaceutical Assessor in 2007 and is involved in the assessment of chemical and biological CTA applications for all phases of study.  He also acts as the UK liaison for clinical trial applications submitted via the voluntary harmonization procedure (VHP) within the EU.