Professor Max's presentation bullet points

• Addressing rare diseases
• The effect of the Human Genome Project on the availability of potential therapies to test
• Case study: Cancer Trials (Patients and Drs keen to take part)
• What do we know? How much has medicine changed? How effective are new treatments?
• The time consuming process of a clinical trial
• Case study: Osteosarcoma (bone cancer)
• Case study: Randomising prisoners to test the effects of an antidote to heroin overdose

About Mahesh Parmar

Mahesh Parmar has been with the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit for over 20 years, and Head of the Cancer Group since 1998. He is also an Associate Director of the National Cancer Research Network since its inception in 2001.  He has interests in improving outcomes for patients in a range of cancers, together with a methodological interest in new designs for clinical trials and improved methods of analysis.

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