Dear all, The Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology (IBE) is happy to announce the upcoming talk by John Ioannidis (Stanford) that will take place on **November 4th at 16.00 in the Senatssaal (room E110)** in the main LMU building. You are welcome to attend the talk! Best regards Anne-Laure Boulesteix --- **Reproducible research: transparency and translational impact** *John P.A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc* C.F. Rehnborg Chair in Disease Prevention; Professor of Medicine, of Health Research and Policy, of Biomedical Data Science, and of Statistics, Stanford University; Co-director, Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS) Abstract: Theoretical insights, simulations, and empirical data converge that in the current research environment a substantial segment of published research yields results that are not credible. Moreover, among the results that are credible a large share cannot be translated meaningfully and thus end up being not useful. The lecture will assess the scope of this evidence and will focus on solutions that have been proposed to make research more reproducible and with greater translational impact. Many of these solutions center around optimizing transparency. Transparency can clearly help reproducibility, but this alone may not suffice to make research outcomes also more useful. Different solutions will be discussed with emphasis on biomedical and social sciences, although the challenges cover all scientific fields and comparative data will be presented across different fields. -- Prof. Dr. Anne-Laure Boulesteix Institute of Medical Information Processing, Biometry and Epidemiology (IBE) Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich Marchioninistr. 15, D81377 Munich (Germany) Tel: +49 89 4400-77598 Fax: +49 89 4400-77491 http://www.ibe.med.uni-muenchen.de/organisation/mitarbeiter/020_professuren/... ---  http://www.osc.lmu.de/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lmu_osc Join our email newsletter: https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc [Unsubscribe](https://lists.lrz.de/mailman/listinfo/lmu-osc) from the newsletter.