Meet the team
The SIGNET study is a ground breaking collaboration between patients, researchers and clinical teams in organ donation and transplant.
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment Programme are funding the study.
NHS Blood and Transplant will help to deliver the study through the expert specialist nurses that support organ donation in hospitals, and the national logistical and coordination teams who facilitate transplants.
Clinical and research teams in UK intensive care units, supported by the UK Critical Care Research Group, will help us run the study and explain it to patients and families.
The UK’s clinical transplant community will help us integrate the study into usual care and analyse the impact of the intervention, supported by the UK Organ Donation and Transplant Research Network.
Most importantly donors, their families and transplant recipients will help us discover new knowledge by agreeing to take part in the study.
The SIGNET study has a dedicated patient and public advisory panel, convened through NHSBT’s Patient and Public Advisory group, to oversee the study on an ongoing basis, provide input into donor and recipient facing materials and provide a lay perspective to the management of the trial and its dissemination.
Our chief investigators
Professor John Dark
Co-Chief Investigator
Professor Dan Harvey
Co-Chief Investigator
Our investigators
Professor Christopher Watson
Co-Investigator
Professor Andrew Fisher
Co-Investigator
Professor Neil Sheerin
Co-Investigator
Professor Guy MacGowan
Co-Investigator
Professor James Shaw
Co-Investigator
Professor Danny McAuley
Co-Investigator
Our operational team
Quality Assurance
Our patient and public advisors
Hilary Yates
Patient and Public Advisor
