This Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) NIH "Rethinking Clinical Trials" Grand Rounds features Pamela Tenaerts, MD, MBA, Executive Director, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative. Dr. Tenaerts will discuss "How CTTI & the Clinical Trials Community Have Risen to Meet the Challenge of the COVID-19 Pandemic".

The Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) Office of the Dean for Research is proud to present the Dean's Seminar Series. This seminar features Peter Tontonoz, MD, PhD, Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, UCLA Health. Dr. Tontonoz will discuss "New Pathways for Cellular and Systemic Lipid Transport".

This Windows into Translation (WiT) seminar features Jeffrey K. Huang, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the Georgetown University Medical Center. Dr. Huang is also the Deputy Director for the Center for Cell Reprogramming. Dr. Riesenhuber will discuss " Myelin regeneration in multiple sclerosis (MS)".

This month's MHRI-GHUCCTS Monthly Statistical Seminar Series features Dr. Paul Kolm, Associate Director in the Department of Biostatistics and Biomedical Informatics at MedStar Health Research Institute. Dr. Kolm will discuss meta-analysis. Meta-analysis combines the results of several studies to overcome small samples of individual studies and estimate a "true" effect size of some treatment, therapy, etc. There has been a substantial increase in the number of meta-analyses published in the past few years, but many appear to not understand the potential problems of the method and draw incorrect conclusions. We will examine the method, potential problems, and what can and cannot be inferred from the results.