Skip to main content
Richard Jackson

Mr Richard Jackson
PhD, MSc, BSc

Contact

R.J.Jackson@liverpool.ac.uk

+44 (0)151 794 8834

Research

My research focuses on the use of health care data and how we may use this to inform treatment decisions and ultimately help improve the length and quality of patients lives.

Personalised Synthetic Control

This involves using statistical models to predict patient performance under some standard of care. By comparing patients observed outcomes to these predictions can then be used to teach us not only what treatment work best but can also be used too identify predictive sub-groups and help lead us towards data driven solutions for clinical problems.

Efficient Trial Design

Randomised Controlled Trials are the gold standard of prospective research. They are however an expensive approach and have substantial costs in terms of time, money and the number of patients required. Improving the efficiency of clinical trials through the application of advanced methodology can accelerate the process of treatment evaluation and ultimately benefit the care that patients receive.

Identification of predictive biomarkers

Biomarkers are any patient characteristic we can identify which may inform how they react to treatment or their outcome. Predictive biomarkers in particular can help inform which treatment a patients should be given and are the main tool in achieving precision medicine. My research is in evaluating and developing tools which can reliably identify predictive biomarkers.

Research grants

Civic Health Equity: from Silos to Systems (CHESS)

UK RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

October 2024 - September 2028

Towards innovative management of maternal sepsis to tackle antimicrobial resistance in maternity care

UK HEALTH SECURITY AGENCY - UKHSA (UK)

January 2024 - March 2024

MAP BRA A Mesh Evaluation Platform for implant based reconstruction

ASSOCIATION OF BREAST SURGERY (UK)

March 2019 - May 2025

Salbutamol for analgesia in renal colic: A prospective, randomised, placebo controlled phase II trial

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE (UK)

April 2019 - January 2023

Finding My Way UK: Adaptation and replication testing of the benefits of online psychological support for cancer survivors.

NORTH WEST CANCER RESEARCH INCORPORATING CLATTERBRIDGE CANCER RESEARCH (UK)

April 2020 - May 2023