Professor Wason is a statistician with interests in methods for improving the efficiency of clinical trials through better design and analysis approaches. As well as working in methodology development James has a great interest in collaborating on real trials to apply new methods in practice.

He has been at Newcastle University since July 2017 and is currently part of the Biostatistics Research Group. Alongside James’ work with AI MULTIPLY, he started an NIHR Research Professorship in Dec 2021 which focuses on improving trials for immune-mediated inflammatory diseases.