Mendelian Randomization Course, 02-20 March 2026Info Location Attendee Categories Contact More Info Event Information
DescriptionThe course comprises four half-days’ worth of content plus the final hackathon, and will take place over 3 weeks (plus a preliminary week 0). It consists of some on-demand pre-recorded content and some timetabled (live) content. The first day of Week 1 will be Monday 2nd March 2026. All the core content of the course is pre-recorded - live sessions are not compulsory to attend, but are supplementary to the core content. They represent a chance to engage with the course tutors. Several of the live sessions will be recorded.
University of Cambridge Students and Staff, whose department will be covering the participation cost, please raise a Purchase Order (or contact a member of your department who can assist with this) and send a PDF of the Purchase Order to burgess-group-admin@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk . You will then be sent the passcode which you will need to use along with the Purchase Order number to complete registration below, selecting the 'UoC Student/Staff Registration' option.
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Attendee Categories1. UoC Student £200/Staff £380 Registration
Additional ItemsMore InformationThe hackathon is an opportunity to perform your own Mendelian randomization investigation to use the skills you have gained during the course. This can be done individually or as part of a group. Course tutors:
Intended audience: Medical / applied / pharmaceutical statisticians, and quantitative epidemiologists. The course material is relevant to causal inference in a wide range of fields including epidemiology, drug development and social sciences, and would be particularly suitable for a PhD or post-doc about to start a project using Mendelian randomization.
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