Nick Kisengese

Nick is experienced Clinical Research and Public Health Projects Management Consultant who has worked at international, regional and local level in Product Development Partnerships, Contract Research Organizations (CRO), Academic Medical Research Centers, not for profit organizations and pharmaceutical industry. At present, he is the Executive Director, ClinWin Research Services a CRO based in Nairobi, Kenya, with regional presence in Uganda and Rwanda. Previously, he was the Clinical Trials and Site Manager for Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a Johnson & Johnson Company, managing clinical trials conducted across Sub Saharan Africa region. Nick has managed dozens of clinical trials projects in different therapeutic areas as Senior Clinical Research Associate at Quintiles; and Clinical Research Associate II at Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD).

As the Clinical Research Associate at Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation; he managed tuberculosis epidemiological studies and clinical trials conducted in Africa, India and Cambodia. He was the Clinical Research Associate at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), responsible for Kenya and Rwanda HIV vaccines clinical research sites.

For over three years he held positions of increasing responsibility at Ghent University affiliated International Centre for Reproductive Health, Kenya, where he was responsible for the planning, management and implementation of HIV/AIDs, reproductive health and social science research projects. He completed clinical research training Internship at KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, where he was involved in implementation of Respiratory Synctial Virus Immuno-epidemiological research project and Measles vaccines evaluation.
He is continuing Doctoral Student at Heriot-Watt University, focusing on clinical trials projects management and graduated with Master of Business Administration from Edinburgh Business School, UK. He holds honors degree in Biological Sciences and Chemistry from Egerton University, Kenya. Nicodemus completed his professional training in Epidemiology, Vaccinology, Infectious Diseases Clinical Trial Research Training, and Clinical Vaccine Trials and Good Clinical Practice from The Institute of Tropical Medicine at Antwerp, Belgium, University of Cape Town, George Washington University and John Hopkins University School of Public Health respectively.

He is member at Society of Quality Assurance, Clinical Research Society of Kenya, Association of Clinical Research Professionals of USA, Project Management Institute and The Institute of Clinical Research of UK.