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Don't miss out on the last webinar in our #AdverseEvent special series!

November 27th 3-4pm (GMT)
Louise Hill and Francesca Schiavone will be talking about their work on safety reporting in neonatal clinical trials

To register for the webinar please complete the following: lnkd.in/ebMSPhds

Last night we celebrated our wonderful Director, Professor Victoria Cornelius at her inaugural lecture. She shared her academic journey highlighting the research she has been instrumental in where innovations in statistical methods have led to real changes in clinical trials and their outcomes.

Highlights and Reflections from ISCB 2025 This summer, I had the opportunity to attend the 46th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB) in Basel. It was an incredible week of learning and networking wi...

📢 New blog post: www.statsci.co.uk/post/highlig...
One of our NIHR pre-doctoral fellows Xiao Xuan Tan recently attended ISCB 2025 which was packed with cutting-edge statistical research & inspiring keynotes. Read all about her key highlights and takeaways from attending the conference here

Current Opportunities We have an iCASE studentship available to start for the 2025/2026 academic year, and applications to our fifth round of recruitment to our DTP to start in October 2026 are now also open. Please see…

📢 Interested in a PhD in clinical trials methodology? The Trials Methodology Research Partnership are advertising projects for PhDs starting Oct 2026, in statistics, health economics, epidemiology, social science, and more, hosted at one of 12 UK partner institutions.
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📢 Chelsea&Westminster Hospital NHS Trust Research Dept. are looking for an enthusiastic & dedicated senior statistician with experience working on drug trials to lead on the statistical work for a small portfolio of sponsored studies.
For details please see here: www.chelwest.nhs.uk/about-us/wor...

I'm doing a webinar in two weeks (15 Oct 1-2pm BST), part of NIHR Research Support Service's Methods Academy series, on the age-old question: should I do a stepped wedge trial?

Free registration, details here: tinyurl.com/z6cjvce3

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💬Got 5 mins?
Help improve clinical trials by sharing your thoughts on health data collection.
@anniestats.bsky.social a PhD researcher at Imperial has designed this survey with the help of her public involvement groups.
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They discuss how often "the apparent benefits of pharmacological interventions are less impressive, and more information emerges about harms they can cause" when using the CSR. You can read the full papers here: www.biomedcentral.com/collections/...

In our latest adverse event webinar Jeffrey Aronson & Igho Onakpoya discuss their review that looked at how data from clinical study reports compare with data in published trial reports. Catch-up on their talk here: www.statsci.co.uk/webinar-series

And that's a wrap on this year's NIHR undergraduate internships. It's been a pleasure hosting three rising stars, they've each achieved so much in just 8 weeks. We can't wait to see what the future holds for them. Congratulations Alex, Mahima & Joe and good luck with the rest of your studies.

Are estimands being correctly used?
A new review of protocols led by Timothy Clark shows many incorrectly defined estimand attributes. See the top areas for improvement & full results here:
trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #Trials

And catch up with the full series of webinars here: www.statsci.co.uk/webinar-series

Clinical Study Reports—a systematic review with thematic synthesis: Part 2. Studying benefits, harms, and the benefit to harm balance of pharmacological interventions - Trials Background We define clinical study reports (CSRs) as standardized full reports of the protocols, results, and other pertinent details of clinical studies that are typically submitted by pharmaceutica...

You can also read the full publication here: trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Thurs 4th September is the next webinar in our adverse event special series. Jeffrey Aronson & Igho Onakpoya will present their review of Clinical Study Reports & discuss the insights they offer when trying to quantify intervention benefits & harms. Sign up here:
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Under pressure: smarter trials for better health outcomes Join us for Professor Victoria Cornelius' inaugural lecture in person or online.

Join us for Professor Victoria Cornelius' inaugural lecture - Under pressure: smarter trials for better health outcomes
Thursday, 30 October 2025 17.30 - 18.30 GMT
Register here: www.imperial.ac.uk/events/19688...

And catch up with the full series of webinars here: www.statsci.co.uk/webinar-series

Clinical Study Reports—a systematic review with thematic synthesis: Part 2. Studying benefits, harms, and the benefit to harm balance of pharmacological interventions - Trials Background We define clinical study reports (CSRs) as standardized full reports of the protocols, results, and other pertinent details of clinical studies that are typically submitted by pharmaceutica...

You can also read the full publication here: trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Attending the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics this week?

Don’t miss

@ellievanvogt.bsky.social and Xiao Xuan

who will be presenting these exciting topics:

Don't miss this exciting opportunity to join us at @imperialctu.bsky.social @statsci.bsky.social. Closing 28th August 2025

Meet Alex Dixon, who is spending his summer experiencing life within ICTUs statistics and trial methodology group and conducting a research project with us as part of an NIHR undergraduate internship

Find out what he has been up to here:
www.statsci.co.uk/news

Description Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

🔊We're hiring!
Imperial Clinical Trials Unit are looking for an ambitious senior statistician with experience in clinical trials & design & analysis of adaptive trials to lead a research programme in antimicrobial resistance & data-enabled trials.
Full details: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

🔊We're hiring! We are looking for an ambitious senior statistician with experience in clinical trials and the design and analysis of adaptive trials to lead a research programme in antimicrobial resistance and support colleagues in data-enabled trials. Full details: lnkd.in/eWpwsH6s

Adverse event assessment in a parenting programme: experiences from a multisite randomised controlled trial - Trials Background Clinicians and researchers should consider the expected benefits and potential harms of an intervention. Parenting programmes are a widely used evidence-based intervention for child behavio...

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Inga Frantz & Nina Heinrichs discuss development of a comprehensive adverse event assessment tool based on their experiences in the RISE project, a multisite RCT that evaluated a parenting intervention for parents of children with increased levels of behaviour problems.

Catch-up on today's adverse event webinar here: www.statsci.co.uk/webinar-series

Adverse event assessment in a parenting programme: experiences from a multisite randomised controlled trial - Trials Background Clinicians and researchers should consider the expected benefits and potential harms of an intervention. Parenting programmes are a widely used evidence-based intervention for child behavio...

Register for this talk and others in the series here: lnkd.in/eaW3MQrB

You can also access the original paper here: doi.org/10.1186/s130...

Next week we continue our adverse event special series. On Thursday 3rd July 1pm (BST), we host Inga Frantz who will be discussing their paper demonstrating the development and testing of a tool to assess the systematic collection of AEs in parenting intervention studies.

Attending #PSI2025 at Wembley stadium ⚽ this week? Don’t miss new research on a novel multiple imputation procedure for handling missing data in clinical trials targeting a treatment policy estimand by @suziecro.bsky.social James Roger & James Carpenter