Group Members

PDRAs

• Dr Nir Voloshin

  • Project: Statistical Methodology for Basket and Platform Trials in Non-oncology Therapeutic Areas

  • June 2025 - present

• Dr Luana Boumendil

  • Project: Bayesian Design and Analysis of Biomarker-guided Clinical Trials

  • Mar 2025 - present

PhD students

• David Jones

  • Project: Incorporating Covariate Information to Design and Analyse Precision Medicine Clinical Trials

  • Sept 2025 - present

• Corey Voller

  • Project: Efficient Design and Analysis of Small Population Clinical Trials with External Data

  • Sept 2024 - present

• Zhi Cao

  • Project: Seamless Phase I/II Adaptive Designs for Precision Medicine Trials

  • Oct 2023 - present (Formerly Research Assistant, May 2023 - August 2023)

Former Group Members

• Dan Burrows

  • PDRA (Oct 2024 - Oct 2025)

  • Project: Unlocking the Potential of Precision Mental Health

  • Retained as an IMI Research Associate in 2025

• Luke Ouma 

  • PhD in Biostatistics (Oct 2019 - Sept 2022)

  • Dissertation: Statistical Methodology for Umbrella and Basket Clinical Trials 

  • Co-supervision with Prof James Wason, Dr Michael Grayling

  • Joined Newcastle University as a Research Associate in 2022 

• Zhulin Yin 

  • PhD in Biostatistics (Oct 2021 - Sept 2024)

  • Dissertation: Development and Implementation of Efficient Adaptive Designs in Early Phase Oncology Trials for Targeted Agents

  • Co-supervision with Prof Christina Yap

• Sara Urru

  • Visiting PhD student (Mar 2024 - Jul 2024) from the University of Padova, Italy

  • Project: Incorporating External Data into Clinical Trials Using Distance Metric Learning

• Giulia Risca

  • Visiting PhD student (Apr 2024 - Jun 2024) from the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

  • Project: Design and Analysis of Basket Trials in Rare Diseases

  • Joined the University of Milano-Bicocca as a Research Associate in 2024

• Jiyang Ren

  • Visiting PhD student (Aug 2023 - Jan 2024) from Tsinghua University, China

  • Project: Adjustment for Baseline Covariates in Randomised Basket Trials

  • Co-supervision with Dr David Robertson

  • Joined AstraZeneca as a Senior Statistician in 2024

• Jiawei Gao

  • MPhil in Health Data Science (Dec 2022 - Jul 2023)

  • Project: Prior Specification for Variance Parameters in Robust Bayesian Hierarchical Models

  • Joined Sun-Novo as a Statistician in 2023

• Ami Saito 

  • Research Assistant (Jul 2021  - Sept 2021)

  • Project: Bayesian Analysis of Clinical Trials with Bivariate Binary Endpoints 

  • Joined LSHTM to pursue a MSc Medical Statistics in 2021

Key Collaborators

Statisticians in HEI

• Christina Yap

  • Professor of Clinical Trials Biostatistics (The Institute of Cancer Research, UK)

• James Wason 

  • Professor of Biostatistics (Newcastle University, UK)

Statisticians in Pharmaceutical Industry

• Michael Grayling 

  • Senior Principal Statistician (Johnson & Johnson, UK)

• Darren Scott

  • Associate Director of Statistical Science (AstraZeneca, UK)

• Yuejia Xu

  • Associate Director (Novartis, UK)

Clinicians 

• Alastair Greystoke

  • Professor of Precision Oncology (Newcastle University, UK)

• Nurulamin Noor

  • Clinical Lecturer in Gastroenterology (University of Cambridge, UK)

• Wei Shen Tan

  • Assistant Professor in Urologic Oncology (Yale University, US)

• Nusrat Husain

  • Chair Professor of Psychiatry (University of Manchester, UK)