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Richard Peto
Professor Sir Richard Peto is Professor of Medical Statistics & Epidemiology at the University of Oxford. In 1975, he set up the Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit at the University of Oxford, of which he and Rory Collins are now co-directors. Professor Peto’s work has included studies of the causes of cancer in general, and of the effects of smoking in particular, and the establishment of large-scale randomised trials of the treatment of heart disease, stroke, cancer and a variety of other diseases. He has been instrumental in introducing combined ‘meta-analyses’ of results from related trials that achieve uniquely reliable assessment of treatment effects. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1989, and was knighted (for services to epidemiology and to cancer prevention) in 1999. |
