Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him
@daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social
Prof at Oxford and Erasmus MC, with expertise in Public health, Epidemiology, Real World Evidence, Health Data Sciences. + a hint of food/drinks, and fun stuff https://www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/team/daniel-prieto-alhambra
🧪🧪New paper out, exploring the boundaries of data-driven drug discovery for chronic pain “Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Drug Target Discovery for Chronic Widespread Pain: A Large Proteogenomic Study” @ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Really proud of our team and colleagues who led the largest ever #realworlddata study, incl 52 databases from 18 European countries and the USA. Standing on the shoulders of giants @ox.ac.uk @ihieurope.bsky.social #EHDEN @ohdsi.bsky.social Enjoy the paper here: www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journal...
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Four PhD projects advertised for October 2026 @ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk Find info and apply here: www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/study/botnar...
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Applications will open in September.
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New paper out today: “Core Concepts in Pharmacoepidemiology: Multi-Database Distributed Data Networks” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Core Concepts in Pharmacoepidemiology: Multi‐Database Distributed Data Networks
Multi-database distributed data networks for post-marketing surveillance of drug safety and effectiveness use two main approaches: common data models (CDMs) and common protocols. Networks such as the...
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New paper out: the largest and most international paper to date on clustering of #longcovid patients 🧪 @ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
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In Barcelona for #eular2025 ? Join us and learn some cool methods for drug repurposing @ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
New paper out today, on the use of machine learning for causal inference @ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Calling all health data researchers! The abstract deadline for #OHDSIUK2025 is almost here! Submit by Friday 23 May to share your work at this leading event on real-world health data and open science.
New manuscript 4 feedback at @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social "Effectiveness of COVID-19 mRNA primary and booster vaccination against infection and hospitalisation during pregnancy: a target trial emulation and meta-analysis of data from 4 European countries" www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... @ox.ac.uk
Effectiveness of COVID-19 mRNA primary and booster vaccination against infection and hospitalisation during pregnancy: a target trial emulation and meta-analysis of data from 4 European countries
Objective To estimate vaccine effectiveness (VE) of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines administered during pregnancy. Primary (2-dose) vaccination was compared with unvaccinated women; and 1st booster (3rd dose) ...
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The @ihieurope.bsky.social -funded GREG project is live!! Visit our website for more details and watch this space for further news!! ihi-greg.eu
Greg - Testing, improving, and co-creating Guidance and Tools for Real World Evidence Generation and Use for Decision-Making in Europe
GREG - “Testing, improving, and co-creating Guidance and Tools for Real World Evidence Generation and Use for Decision-Making in Europe”, is a 60-month initiative that began in May 2025, funded by the...
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The 6th meeting of the Health Data Research Alliance - #OHDSI UK Special Interest Group on the #OMOP Common Data Model will be on Tuesday the 6th May at 1 pm UK time. ukhealthdata.org/events/52823/ eventbrite.co.uk/e/1317198428... @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social
I’ve heard 100x times that + net migration EU->UK led to Brexit. I guess nobody predicted that the modification of that balance would lead to this… bbc.in/4iKVhNU
Local Elections latest: Reform celebrates big wins in England's elections dubbed 'bloodbath' by Tories, as Starmer hits out at Farage
Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey says they are now
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Happy Sant Jordi ‘25. Homesickness day for all of us who left Catalonia and continue to love it from the distance
New preprint awaiting feedback @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Secular Trends in Incidence, Prevalence, and Survival of Pancreatic Cancer in the United Kingdom: A Population-Based Cohort Study from 2000 to 2021
Background: Pancreatic cancer is the seventh leading cause of cancer related mortality worldwide and the fifth in the United Kingdom (UK), with incidence rates nearly matching mortality. Methods: We c...
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A new study led by Daniel Prieto Alhambra @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social and Junqing Xie supports the hypothesis of immunity debt showing increases of influenza rates one year after global relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions.
New paper out today “s Effect of intra-articular corticosteroid injections for knee osteoarthritis on the rates of subsequent knee replacement and post- operative outcomes: a national cohort study of England” 🧪 bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/...
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New paper out "Immunity Debt for Seasonal Influenza After the COVID-19 Pandemic and as a Result of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions: An Ecological Analysis and Cohort Study" 🧪 @ox.ac.uk @ndorms.bsky.social advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Immunity Debt for Seasonal Influenza After the COVID‐19 Pandemic and as a Result of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions: An Ecological Analysis and Cohort Study
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New paper out today in the Am J Gastroenterol 🧪 journals.lww.com/ajg/abstract... @ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @daniellenewby.bsky.social @patripedregal.bsky.social
Incidence and survival of colorectal cancer in the United... : Official journal of the American College of Gastroenterology | ACG
alysed nationally representative primary care records from Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) GOLD and replicated in CPRD Aurum. We calculated incidence rates, and short- and long-term surviva...
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New Editorial paper out 🧪 “Real-world evidence for regulatory purposes: The example of DARWIN EU®” Also available in Spanish language: “Evidencias de la Vida real Para uso regulatorio: el ejemplo de DARWIN EU®” www.revistafarmaciahospitalaria.es/es-real-worl...
Real-world evidence for regulatory purposes: The example of DARWIN EU® | Farmacia Hospitalaria
Randomised controlled trials have been recognised as the gold standard method for the demonstration of efficacy when a medicinal product is first
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Nature: a reminder.. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Texas Measles Outbreak Spurs Call for Stronger Vaccine Advocacy
This Medical News article discusses the current measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico, increasing vaccine hesitancy in the US, and recent Trump administration actions.
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New paper out this week: “Effect of intra-articular corticosteroid injections for osteoarthritis on the subsequent use of pain medications: a UK CPRD cohort study” @nihr.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk academic.oup.com/rheumatology...
Effect of intra-articular corticosteroid injections for osteoarthritis on the subsequent use of pain medications: a UK CPRD cohort study
AbstractObjectives. To estimate the effect of intra-articular corticosteroid injection (IACI) for osteoarthritis on longer-term incidence of pain medicatio
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Delighted to see the final report from the Joint EC/HMA/EMA multi-stakeholder workshop on pharmacogenomics held last autumn in Amsterdam hashtag#realworldevidence hashtag#pharmacogenomics www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents...
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The Pyrenees from 2 different angles
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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