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2. Description

The Drug Safety Research Unit (DSRU) is a leading independent academic research organisation internationally renowned for its work in Prescription Event Monitoring (PEM), Drug Safety and Educational Activities for nearly 30 years. In partnership with general practitioners in England we aim to protect patients from unwanted adverse effects of newly marketed medicines by way of our unique method of monitoring patients during the early life of a new medicine. Our research capabilities include PEM, (a systematic active post-marketing surveillance programme), modified PEM, Specialist Cohort Event Monitoring (SCEM) studies, systematic reviews, signal detection, cohort and case control studies, studies for risk management plans, establishment of epidemiological databases, and pharmacogenetics. The Unit has a team of 12 research fellows (clinicians, epidemiologist, pharmacists and biomedical scientists) who conduct studies, supported by IT, admin and data management staff.

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5. Therapeutic/disease areas of research in drug safety/risk-benefit performed in the past 5 years

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9. Experience in secondary research and meta-analysis

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15. Interest in contract research only if free to publish results

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