Sarah Darby

Sarah Darby
Born
Sarah C. Darby
EducationImperial College London (BSc)
University of Birmingham (MSc)
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsEpidemiology
Statistics
Cancer
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
Radcliffe Infirmary
St Thomas's Hospital Medical School
National Radiological Protection Board
Radiation Effects Research Foundation
ThesisA Bayesian Approach to Parallel Line Bioassay (1977)
Doctoral studentsHelen Weiss
Websitewww.ndph.ox.ac.uk/team/sarah-darby

Sarah C. Darby FRS is professor of medical statistics at the University of Oxford. Her research has focused the beneficial effects of smoking cessation, the risk of lung cancer from residential radon, and treatments for early breast cancer. She is also a principal scientist with the Cancer Research UK in the Clinical Trial Service Unit (CTSU) and Epidemiological Studies Unit at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.