Role: Core

Lars G. Hemkens, MD, MPH is Senior Scientist at Department of Clinical Research, University of Basel and Lead Pragmatic Trials and Real World Evidence at the Research Center for Clinical Neuroimmunology and Neuroscience Basel (RC2NB). Dr. Hemkens is affiliated with the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS; Stanford University, USA) and the Meta-Research Innovation Center…

Perrine Janiaud, PhD, is a clinical epidemiologist whose work focuses mainly on clinical trial methodology, more specifically pragmatic trial and more broadly how evidence is being generated in clinical trials and then transposed to clinical settings. Before joining the University Hospital Basel, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS).…

Dr. Julian Hirt, joined the research group in 2021 and co-coordinated the COVID-evidence and the PragMeta project, both SNSF-funded living public databases of randomized trials assessing interventions to treat or prevent COVID-19 (COVID-evidence) and randomized trials with different degrees of pragmatism (PragMeta). Using these databases, he performed evidence syntheses and meta-research within a team of…

Pascal Düblin, MSc, is an Applications Developer and Data Scientist who has been working at the Department of Clinical Research in Basel since 2017, supporting the development of an electronic quality management for clinical research, a platform for courses and training, and many small study-specific applications. As part of the Covid-evidence project, Pascal joined the…

Cathrine Axfors is a medical doctor and researcher in clinical epidemiology, with a PhD in medicine (psychiatry) from Uppsala University, Sweden. She obtained her Swedish MD license at Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden, after a 1.5-year clinical internship. Between 2019-2023, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Meta-research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, focusing…