KEM Hospital Research Centre

Experience

More than 50 clinical and non-clinical trials, Vaccine trials including Phase I/II/III/IV: Hep-B Vaccine, Hepatitis-A Vaccine, Rotavirus Vaccine, Pneumococcal Vaccine, TB Vaccine, Influenza Vaccine, HPV Vaccine, Inactivated Polio Vaccine, Typhoid Vaccine, Tdap Vaccine. Meningitis Vaccine, Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine, Zoster, COVID-19

Investigator Driven Trial:
Nasopharyngeal Pneumococcal carriage and immunogenicity with reduced and alternate dose schedule of PCV Vaccine.

Research interests

CHRD, Society for ApUniversity of Edinburgh, UK
University of California, Berkley
Centre for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, USA
Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden
Hellar Kellar International, New York
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Imperial College, London
Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA
INDEPTH: International Network of Field Sites with Continuous Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health in Developing Countries, Accra, Ghana
London School of hygiene & Public Health, UK
Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, Seattle, USA
School of Public Health, University of California, USA
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel
Umea University, Sweden
Vanderbilt Univeristy, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
World Health Organization Geneva, Switzerland

Disease areas

• COVID-19
• Dengue
• Enteric diseases
• Influenza
• Malaria
• Maternal Health
• Other
• TB
• Yellow Fever
• Zika

Hep-B Vaccine, Hepatitis-A Vaccine, Rotavirus Vaccine, Pneumococcal Vaccine, TB Vaccine, Influenza Vaccine, HPV Vaccine, Inactivated Polio Vaccine, Typhoid Vaccine, Tdap Vaccine. Meningitis Vaccine, Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine COVID-19 Disease Burden: NP Pneumococcal carriage, Pneumonia etiology study, SARI, National Surveillance for enteric fever, Rotavac Rollout, Possible suspected bacterial infection, Typhoid etc.

Other information

The clinical research centre is set up compliant with local and international regulations. Our Centre has an Ethics committee registered with CDSCO as an Institutional Ethics committee. Hospital has a centralized Medical Research Department with a separate place for drug and document storage under locked and key, which oversees all clinical research activities.
The site was Inspected by CDSCO inspectors (Central Drug Standard Control organisation) in Jun 2016 and in Aug 2017.Multiple audits were conducted for most of the studies by sponsors and external auditors.
WHO also conducted several co-monitoring visits for different studies.
BMGF-TAG Committee also conducted a co-monitoring visit in Feb 2017