Research themes – MRC Biostatistics Unit

Overview 

Our current research portfolio is organised into five themes that span the scientific research spectrum from basic science to population health and respond to current scientific needs in biomedicine. 

Each theme is anchored in important scientific questions arising from our key stakeholders, questions which both motivate methodological developments and ensure their impact.

We work with leading trial centres and epidemiology groups, and public health bodies such as the UK Health Security Agency. We also have developing links with major programmes in stratified medicine and in big data analytics such as Health Data Research UK and the Alan Turing Institute.

Making BSU science open and accessible

We support the FAIR principles: all our science should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reproducible. 

For example, this includes: 

• making all our publications open access 
• releasing free, open-source software to implement statistical methods
• releasing code to reproduce analyses in publications 
• sharing research data in an open and responsible manner (e.g. storing personal data securely)