Today marked my last day as an intern at Oxford Medical Products, a biotechnology company focused on combating the global obesity issue. Over the last 7 weeks I have had the pleasure of gaining experience in clinical trial operations as well as other areas of the business.
As part of my internship, my main project was to complete a meta-analysis focusing on quantifying the placebo effect in randomised controlled weight-loss trials. Within this project I extracted data from over 15 papers, leading to a final sample size of over 2400 participants, which I later completed subgroup analysis on, splitting this sample into participants living with and without type 2 diabetes. Within this report, I focused on quantifying the change in outcome variables commonly used within weight-loss research, such as, weight (both %TBWL and kg), waist circumference, BMI and nausea at various time points. This project challenged me in many ways and allowed me to develop many of my scientific skills such as data extraction, data analysis and scientific communication.
I am incredibly grateful to have been given an opportunity to complete research which will contribute to understanding OMP’s future Phase 3 trial results. I would like to thank Elanor Hinton and George Spooner for their support during my internship. I can’t wait to implement the skills I have learned from you both during my final year at Durham University.
Finally, I would like to thank Camilla Easter for this opportunity, it has been such a valuable experience and I have really enjoyed my time as an intern at OMP.