"Better methods for better research" grant awarded

Published: 28 June 2018

MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit and Robertson Centre for Biostatistics' Professor Rod Taylor has received funding to develop CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) and SPIRIT (Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials) extensions for randomised trials with a primary surrogate endpoint

Professor Rod Taylor, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit and Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, together with colleagues at Universities of Bristol, Edinburgh, and Bocconi (Milan, Italy) has been awarded a £99,626 grant by MRC Better Methods for Better Research Committee to develop CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials) and SPIRIT (Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials) extensions for randomised trials with a primary surrogate endpoint.

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This 18-month project is scheduled to begin in September/October 2021.

Rod will be advertising for a full-time fixed term grade 6/7 research post to coordinate this project.

If interested please contact Rod directly or view the details on the UofG jobs webpage


First published: 28 June 2018