University of St Andrews Esta Clark NatRecordsScot NCLMathsStatsPhysics Knowledge Exchange CPACT Lancaster Maths & Stats Daniel García Rasines Rachel Hilliam OU Maths & Stats Vahé Nafilyan Office for National Statistics (ONS) Faculty of Science, Agriculture & Engineering The Bradford Hill Medal for medical statistics is awarded to Max Parmar of UCL Population Health Sciences MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL ICTM at UCL for his work designing, conducting and analysing a wide range of high quality and influential cancer trials 10/12

Congratulations to our Director, Max Parmar, who has been awarded the Royal Statistical Society's 2024 Bradford Hill Medal!🏅👏

Max has been recognised for his innovative work on efficient designs for late-phase #ClinicalTrials .

Learn more about this honour👉bit.ly/44zndPx

🗣Today's ICTM at UCL Seminar by Shiva Taheri explores a new trial monitoring plan template designed via Delphi process.

Currently, each #ClinicalTrials Unit develops its own monitoring plan, but an adaptable template could improve transparency, completeness and standardisation.

Three fantastic members of our staff have been nominated for UCL Education Awards by our MSc students! Well done to Angela Meade, Deepti Nayak, and Sharon Love for this recognition of their dedication to our students!

#UCL #EducationAwards #HigherEdTeachingAwards

🆕The PediCAP trial found that children recovering from severe #pneumoniacould safely switch from injectable to oral antibiotics earlier, and come home from hospital sooner.

These new results were presented today at #ESCMIDGlobal #ECCMID2024 .

More info👉 bit.ly/3w9RVSB

Congratulations to Prof Patrick Royston , who on 17th April was ranked #89 in the world ranking and #4 in United Kingdom. He was also recognised with Research.com's Mathematics Leader Award for 2024!
MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL

The ICTM at UCL seminar series returns today for the new term!

Today we're looking forward to hearing from Anneke Hesseling, James Seddon and Trinh Duong about preventative treatment for contacts of those with multi-drug resistant #tuberculosis #TB .

We spoke to Dr G, an alumna of our MSc #ClinicalTrials , about her experience as a student at ICTM. Gabsile discussed her fondest memories of her time at UCL, how her degree helped her career and some tips for current students.

Read more here!
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Join me for the 33rd Joint London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - Royal Statistical Society Perspectives on Statistics in Medicine Annual Lecture (formerly Bradford Hill Memorial Lecture).

📅 26th June 2024
⏲️ 1730-1830 (BST)
📍 John Snow Lecture Theatre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine WC1E 7HT

Link to join online: lshtm.zoom.us/j/98398749667#…

We are pleased to share the new global platform for individual participant data on #tuberculosis (TB-IPD), supported by World Health Organization (WHO).

The TB-IPD pools #IPD from researchers or #TB programmes to promote open science through onward data sharing.

Read more👉 bit.ly/3W1pOj6

Individual participant data ( #IPD ) is the gold standard for #MetaAnalysis .🌟

Next in our '25 at 25' series, discover how our IPD meta-analyses & systematic reviews have influenced the treatment of patients across a broad range of conditions.

Read more👉bit.ly/3U1fmoU

@TheLancetCommission on #ProstateCancer projects that cases will double by 2040, with the biggest rise in low & middle-income countries (LMICs).

In this thread, learn how our #ClinicalTrials & studies will help prepare for the upcoming surge in cases🧵
thelancet.com/commissions/pr…

Want to learn how to design groundbreaking Clinical Trials?

Master Estimands with Brennan Kahan, an in-demand skill via UCL's fully online MSc #Statistics in #ClinicalTrials .

The faculty are world leaders!
Apply by 30 August: bit.ly/3IhwQZ8
#OnlineMasters

We are hosting a webinar on 23 April 2023, 14:00-15:00 GMT!

Come along and hear from our Programme Director for MSc #ClinicalTrialsand Principal Research Fellow, Alex Gentry-Maharaj.

Find out more: bit.ly/48AwOGN

We have a series of webinars coming up so you can learn about our MSc courses!

When you study at ICTM, you learn from staff who are developing and delivering innovations in #ClinicalTrialsand the #Methodology that improves and enhances them.

🔗 bit.ly/48AwOGN

Congratulations to the lead authors, Hanif Esmail,
Anna Coussens & Rein Houben, who helped bring together this important publication!
Find out more via the link below👇
#YesWeCanEndTB

Applications for external candidates for our iBSc #ClinicalTrials close on 31 March 2024.

We are hosting a final webinar where you can hear from our Programme Co-Directors and learn more about the course.
27 March, 15:00-16:00 GMT
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🆕For #WorldTBDay we present a new way to classify #tuberculosis with improved focus on early stages of the disease.

If widely adopted, the new framework could drive forward efforts to #EndTB .

Discover more in this thread🧵
Full story on our website👉bit.ly/4csojA9