Janet Messer Health Research Authority
Janet Messer is Director of Approvals at the Health Research Authority. She is responsible for the Research Ethics, Confidentiality Advice, Assessment and Assurance services, alongside the supporting guidance and advice. Her team also works collaboratively with a wide range of partner organisations to fulfil the HRA’s aims to coordinate and standardise practice in research regulation, to make it easier to do good trustworthy ethical research in the UK. She sits on the cross-sector Recovery, Resilience and Growth Programme Board. She led the implementation of HRA Approval, and more recently has worked closely with MHRA, the devolved administrations and NIHR in the development of the combined review process for clinical trials which completed its roll out at the start of 2022. She is working closely with MHRA on the development and implementation of the new clinical trial regulations.
She has a PhD in biochemistry from University of Cambridge and a Masters in Medical Law, along with many years’ experience of clinical research in the pharmaceutical industry, NHS R&D and the NIHR Clinical Research Network.