Helen Atkinson is Assistant Director of the Cambridge Research Office. Helen and her team have responsibility for the Departments within Clinical Medicine, covering the whole life cycle of research projects both pre and post award. Helen has been in the Cambridge Research Office for eight years. For the majority of that time Helen was a Contracts Manager negotiating agreements ranging from studentship agreements to large framework agreements with organisations such as Rolls Royce, Unilever and AWE. Helen then went on to be Pre Award Services Manager leading the business development, contracts and applications team before taking up the current role of Assistant Director.