Prof. David Clayton University of Cambridge, UK

David Clayton is Head of the Statistics Group in the Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory at the Cambridge Institute of Medical Research, University of Cambridge. He has previously held posts at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Leicester. He is one of the pioneers of... read morethe use of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods in Bayesian statistics and has taught many short courses on statistical methods in epidemiological research. In addition to his continuing methodological research work, David maintains links with a range of projects concerned with the genetic epidemiology of complex diseases, including leprosy, tuberculosis, hypertension, multiple sclerosis, age-related macular degeneration and foetal growth.