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BSU estimates underpin the key messages of the recent report by Public Health England ‘HIV in the UK: towards zero HIV transmissions by 2030’. The report shows that thanks to increases in HIV testing, fewer people remain unaware of their HIV status, with a consequent fall in new HIV infections. The drop in HIV transmission […]

On Tuesday 19th November 2019, Professor Sylvia Richardson attended an investiture at Buckingham Palace where she was officially presented with her Commander of the Most Excellent Order British Empire (CBE) medal in a ceremony conducted by HRH the Duke of Cambridge. Sylvia, who was named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list earlier this year said […]

Genetic associations for related diseases, such as those that are immune-mediated, are often identified in the same genomic regions and are likely to share some genetic variants that play a role in disease susceptibility. Associated variants usually do not affect disease risk, rather they are highly correlated with the causal variant(s) for disease risk, and […]

Congratulations 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 […]