MRC Steering Committee For CAPS

Caerphilly

Caerphilly Prospective Study Phase 1 Variables Phase 2 Variables Phase 3 Variables Phase 4 Variables Steering Committee Collaboration Publications MRC Unit History Former Studies

The MRC awarded Professor Stephen Frankel a grant to enable all the resources from the MRC Unit to be transferred to the Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, from April 1999 on the closure of the Unit.

All paper records have been archived and blood samples catalogued.

All the electronic data (existing in around 600 flat files) were re-imported into a specially designed relational database.

This has enabled a wide range of on-going research projects to continue as well as enabling new collaborators to continue to work on the data and biological samples.

The MRC awarded the grant on condition that a steering committee was set up to review all requests for new data and/or biological samples.

The committee are as follows:

Prof. David Strachan (Chair);
Dr. Yoav Ben-Shlomo (Sec.);
Dr. Rob Buckle (MRC representative);
Prof. George Davey Smith;
Prof. Paul Dieppe;
Prof. Peter Elwood;
Prof. Kay-Tee Khaw;
Dr. John Yarnell.

Any individual interested in having access to materials from the Caerphilly study should read the terms and conditions and discuss the matter initially with Dr. Yoav Ben-Shlomo.