MRC Biostatistics UnitCongratulations to Sean Yiu who has been awarded the 2019 Young Biometrician’s Prize for his work on the paper “Covariate association eliminating weights: a unified weighting framework for causal effect estimation” published in the Journal Biometrika. The British and Irish Region of the International Biometric Society (IBS-BIR), jointly with the Fisher Memorial Trust, award a […]
Excess weight and body fat cause cardiovascular disease
Excess weight and body fat cause a range of heart and blood vessel diseases, according to the first study to investigate this using a method called Mendelian randomisation. In particular, the study published in the European Heart Journal shows that as body mass index (BMI) and fat mass increase, so does the risk of aortic […]
Sylvia Richardson awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list
The Director of the MRC Biostatistics Unit Professor Sylvia Richardson, has been made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2019. Sylvia, who received her award for services to medical statistics, has held a Research Professorship at the University of Cambridge since 2012. Prior […]
Research partnership involving MRC Biostatistics Unit awarded £460k to advance clinical trial methodology
A new University of Liverpool led partnership, that includes the MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge has been awarded £460k from the Medical Research Council (MRC) – National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Methodology Research Programme to help advance clinical trial methodology . Currently there is an urgent need for methodological improvements in many areas […]
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