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- January 2012-MRC Biostatistics Unit announces our new Director
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Sylvia Richardson, who is currently Chair in Biostatistics in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Imperial College London has been appointed as the Director of the MRC Biostatistics Unit in Cambridge from 1 April 2012.
Professor Richardson succeeds acting Director Professor Vern Farewell, following the departure of former Director Professor Simon Thompson in 2010.
The MRC will award Professor Richardson an MRC Research Professorship to be held at the University of Cambridge. Professor Richardson has been at Imperial since 2000 and was previously Directeur de Recherches at the French National Institute for Medical Research INSERM, where she held research positions for 20 years.
Professor Richardson has worked extensively in many areas of biostatistics research and made important contributions to the statistical modelling of complex biomedical data, in particular from a Bayesian perspective. Her work has contributed to progress in epidemiological understanding and has covered spatial modelling and disease mapping, mixture and clustering models as well as integrative analysis of observational data from different sources. Her recent research has focussed on modelling and analysis of large data problems such as those arising in genomics. Professor Richardson said,
“I am extremely pleased to take up this appointment at a time when important developments in biomedical sciences and public health are creating great demands for new statistical methods. I am confident that the MRC Biostatistics Unit will continue to play a major role in these developments.”
Professor Sir John Savill, Chief Executive of the MRC said,
Welcome to the MRC Biostatistics Unit Professor Richardson!“I am absolutely delighted that Professor Sylvia Richardson is taking over as Director of the MRC Biostatistics Unit, which is so important to the MRC's mission. She is an outstanding scientific leader and will help the Unit go from strength to strength.”