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Professor Ly-Mee Mu

Ordinary Fellow

Professor of Clinical Trials and Biostatistics

Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences

Ly-Mee joined the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences in 2013 after previously working at the Centre for Statistics in Medicine where she led a team of statisticians, collaborating on a variety of clinical studies (predominately randomised controlled trials) and supported numerous funding applications (e.g. NIHR, FP7, MRC, and Wellcome Trust). She has over 30 years of experience as a medical statistician and specifically in clinical trials for the past 20 years. She has worked in a wide range of clinical areas, including but not limited to, renal disease, behavioural medicine, vaccinology, cardiovascular medicine, infectious disease, surgery, allied health, mental health, neurosciences, respiratory, and orthopaedics. She has published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the Lancet, JAMA and the BMJ. She is currently the lead statistician of two platform adaptive decentralised clinical trials to evaluate treatment for COVID-19 in the community.

Ly-Mee is a Co-Director the Primary Care Clinical Trials Unit (CTU), and Co-Director of the NIHR Research Support Services (hosted by Southampton), as well as a panel member of the NIHR Research Programme for Social Care and the Definitive Interventions and Feasibility Awards (HRB Ireland). She is a member of the CHM Cancer Vaccines Expert Working Group (CVEWG), and has sat on various NIHR funding boards and the Oxford Tropical Research Ethnics Committee. She is also a chair/member of data and safety monitoring committee, and the trial steering committee of several national and international trials.

Ly-Mee’s research interests include trial methodology, such as platform trials, decentralised clinical trials, missing data, covariate adjustment in clinical trials.