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Oliver Crook awarded 2023 Young Biometrician Award
Many congratulations to former BSU PhD student, Oliver Crook, on winning the Young Biometrician Award 2023 for work undertaken during his PhD, with his paper Semi-Supervised Nonparametric Bayesian...
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New genetic study identifies links between disease risks and variation in...
A genome-wide association study of blood cell morphology led by the BSU identifies cellular proteins implicated in disease aetiology. Blood cells are crucial for human survival, they carry oxygen...
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Mendelian Randomization in Translation
A Chinese-language translation of Mendelian Randomization: Methods for Causal Inference Using Genetic Variants, is now available for purchase in mainland China. The book, authored by Stephen Burgess,...
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Meet Folarin Oyebolu
Folarin Oyebolu Meet Folarin Oyebolu, Research Associate working with William Astle. In this blog post, Folarin discusses his route to working at the BSU and to biostatistics research, his early...
View ArticleResearchers develop first multi-trait multi-group fine-mapping method
A team of experts from the MRC Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge (Jennifer Asimit, Feng Zhou), University of Manchester (Andrew Morris), University of Exeter (Inês Barroso), MRC...
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Career Support Award to attend JSM 2023
Sofía Villar was awarded a University of Cambridge Career Support Award so that her children could travel with her to attend the Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) 2023 in Toronto. The Career Support...
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Highly Cited Researchers 2023
Researchers from the MRC Biostatistics Unit (BSU) are included in the list of Highly Cited Researchers 2023. This accolade recognises authors of highly-cited papers in the scientific literature. Of...
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Benjamin Woolf awarded Cambridge Public Health ECR Prize
Congratulations to Benjamin Woolf on being awarded the Cambridge Public Health Early Career Researcher (ECR) prize. Benjamin (Benji), a Research Assistant working on genetic epidemiology at the BSU,...
View ArticleDoes improving erectile function increase fertility?
Research published this week in the British Medical Journal investigated links between penis stiffness and health outcomes, including number of children fathered, number of sexual partners, and...
View ArticleSuccessful funding bid for the MRC Biostatistics Unit
The MRC Biostatistics Unit (BSU) is delighted to announce the successful conclusion of their MRC funding renewal bid, which has resulted in the award of 100% funding – a fantastic result in the...
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