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| 24 Feb 2023 | |
| Alumni Stories & Interviews |
Martin Landray (centre) with former members of Common Room, Jon Gabitass (L) and David Crawford (R)
Talk - The Road to RECOVERY: Finding Treatments for a Pandemic
On Friday 24 February 2023, Martin Landray returned to Abingdon to give a fascinating talk on his pivotal role in the RECOVERY trial (the world’s largest trial of potential treatments for COVID-19 and the discovery that dexamethasone reduces mortality for the sickest patients) for which he received a knighthood for services to public health and science.
Martin is Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology at Oxford Population Health, University of Oxford, and the Chief Executive of Protas, a not-for-profit company, focused on the design and delivery of highly efficient randomised trials of treatments for major public health conditions.
The microphone was on, the piano was tuned and the drinks and canapés were ample. More...
