Author Archives: Kieran Tebben

About Kieran Tebben

I am an MSTP student at University of Maryland, Baltimore in my first year of graduate school in the Microbiology and Immunology program. I have an undergraduate degree in Microbiology and a masters degree in Epidemiology. I currently study malaria transcriptomics and am interested in how pharmacogenomics influences infectious disease treatment and prevention.

Single-arm trials for COVID-19 vaccines

By | May 27, 2021

Randomized control trials are the commonly held gold standard clinical trial design. The randomized controlled trial (RCT) is the gold standard of clinical research. However, researchers are increasingly asking: must they be? Webster-Clark, Jonsson Funk, and Stürmer discussed single-arm trials: administering a drug to an experimental group and using real-world data (RWD) to select an… Read More »