The advocates of big data sometimes claim that, given enough data, tedious epidemiological concerns about data that is not missing at random, other causes of bias or confounding will become irrelevant, so that randomised trials will become unnecessary.
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The announcements last week of the award of the 2018 Nobel prizes in Physiology or Medicine to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo “for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulationâ; and in Chemistry, …
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So much has happened at the Centre for Cancer Immunology since my last blog, and in retrospect it all seemed to be leading up to Fridayâs Vice Chancellors Awards ceremony held at St Mary Stadium…
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Iâm writing this the evening before a meeting with the General Medical Council and HEE Wessex, when we will be formally given feedback from our regulator on their five yearly Review of our University of Southampton BMBS Medicine programmes.Â
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Welcome everyone to the first eNews blog of the new term and my first as Dean. Reflecting on my first two weeks, it has been incredibly busy meeting people both here and at Highfield.
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The doors to the Centre for Cancer Immunology have been open for just over a month now, with everyone settling in to their new routines and ways of going about their day, and I canât help feeling an immense sense
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We are nearing the end of the first week of the researchersâ migration into the CCI where we join our colleagues in the Clinical Trials Unit who have been in occupation for a few weeks already.
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Nutrition and Hydration Week (12-18 March 2018) provides an opportunity to reflect on the state of the British diet and how well it meets the needs of the population.
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International Womenâs Day provides a fitting opportunity to acknowledge the extraordinary contribution that our female colleagues make to the Faculty of Medicine and the wider University.
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Newton Morton, founding father of the field of Genetic Epidemiology, sadly passed away earlier this week.
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What kind of scientist are you â introvert or extrovert? Academia of 30 years ago was a bit of an âIvory Towerâ, a state of privileged seclusion.Â
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The latest edition of Medical Education[i], which has long been the top ranked journal of its kind[ii], reminds us that it is 30 years since the Edinburgh Declaration[iii] was approved at the World Conference on Medical Education held in the
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