Simon Gates is Professor of Biostatistics and Clinical Trials at the Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit (CRCTU). He is involved in design, supervision, analysis and reporting of clinical trials in a variety of clinical areas, both cancer and non-cancer. His main research interests are in improving the methodology of clinical trials, to enable us to obtain better clinical answers more easily, especially by promoting the use of innovative multi-arm and adaptive trial designs, and Bayesian statistical methods.
He is also Statistical Editor for the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group, and is a National Institute of Health Research Senior Investigator.