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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · 9d

🧪🧪New paper out, exploring the boundaries of data-driven drug discovery for chronic pain

“Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Drug Target Discovery for
Chronic Widespread Pain: A Large Proteogenomic Study”

@ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · 16d

Really proud of our team and colleagues who led the largest ever #realworlddata study, incl 52 databases from 18 European countries and the USA. Standing on the shoulders of giants @ox.ac.uk @ihieurope.bsky.social #EHDEN @ohdsi.bsky.social

Enjoy the paper here: www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journal...

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · Sep 9

Four PhD projects advertised for October 2026 @ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

Find info and apply here:

www.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/study/botnar...

Botnar projects

Applications will open in September.

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · Jul 31

New paper out today 🧪

: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · Jul 7

New paper out today: “Core Concepts in Pharmacoepidemiology: Multi-Database Distributed Data Networks”

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Core Concepts in Pharmacoepidemiology: Multi‐Database Distributed Data Networks

Multi-database distributed data networks for post-marketing surveillance of drug safety and effectiveness use two main approaches: common data models (CDMs) and common protocols. Networks such as the...

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · Jun 17

New paper out: the largest and most international paper to date on clustering of #longcovid patients 🧪 @ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · Jun 13

In Barcelona for #eular2025 ? Join us and learn some cool methods for drug repurposing
@ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · Jun 3

New paper out today, on the use of machine learning for causal inference @ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Alex Knight @alexknighthdruk.bsky.social · May 20

Calling all health data researchers!
The abstract deadline for #OHDSIUK2025 is almost here!

Submit by Friday 23 May to share your work at this leading event on real-world health data and open science.

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · May 18

The largest study to date on the effectiveness of primary and booster #covidvaccines in pregnancy 🧪

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · May 18

New manuscript 4 feedback at @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social "Effectiveness of COVID-19 mRNA primary and booster vaccination against infection and hospitalisation during pregnancy: a target trial emulation and meta-analysis of data from 4 European countries" www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... @ox.ac.uk

Effectiveness of COVID-19 mRNA primary and booster vaccination against infection and hospitalisation during pregnancy: a target trial emulation and meta-analysis of data from 4 European countries

Objective To estimate vaccine effectiveness (VE) of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines administered during pregnancy. Primary (2-dose) vaccination was compared with unvaccinated women; and 1st booster (3rd dose) ...

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · May 12

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The @ihieurope.bsky.social -funded GREG project is live!! Visit our website for more details and watch this space for further news!! ihi-greg.eu

Greg - Testing, improving, and co-creating Guidance and Tools for Real World Evidence Generation and Use for Decision-Making in Europe

GREG - “Testing, improving, and co-creating Guidance and Tools for Real World Evidence Generation and Use for Decision-Making in Europe”, is a 60-month initiative that began in May 2025, funded by the...

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · May 8

Common Ground

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Alex Knight @alexknighthdruk.bsky.social · Apr 30

The 6th meeting of the Health Data Research Alliance - #OHDSI UK Special Interest Group on the #OMOP Common Data Model will be on Tuesday the 6th May at 1 pm UK time.
ukhealthdata.org/events/52823/
eventbrite.co.uk/e/1317198428...
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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · May 3

I’ve heard 100x times that + net migration EU->UK led to Brexit. I guess nobody predicted that the modification of that balance would lead to this… bbc.in/4iKVhNU

Local Elections latest: Reform celebrates big wins in England's elections dubbed 'bloodbath' by Tories, as Starmer hits out at Farage

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey says they are now

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · Apr 23

Happy Sant Jordi ‘25. Homesickness day for all of us who left Catalonia and continue to love it from the distance

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · Apr 11

New preprint awaiting feedback @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Secular Trends in Incidence, Prevalence, and Survival of Pancreatic Cancer in the United Kingdom: A Population-Based Cohort Study from 2000 to 2021

Background: Pancreatic cancer is the seventh leading cause of cancer related mortality worldwide and the fifth in the United Kingdom (UK), with incidence rates nearly matching mortality. Methods: We c...

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NDORMS, University of Oxford @ndorms.bsky.social · Apr 9

A new study led by Daniel Prieto Alhambra @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social and Junqing Xie supports the hypothesis of immunity debt showing increases of influenza rates one year after global relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions.

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · Apr 7

New paper out today “s
Effect of intra-articular corticosteroid
injections for knee osteoarthritis on the rates
of subsequent knee replacement and post-
operative outcomes: a national cohort study
of England” 🧪

bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/...

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · Apr 5

Clever use of publicly available & real world data to model the impact of hashtag#COVID19 and related public health restrictions on the impact of subsequent influenza waves

Important data for the planning of vaccination campaigns and for the management of future pandemics

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · Apr 5

New paper out "Immunity Debt for Seasonal Inﬂuenza After the COVID-19 Pandemic and as a Result of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions: An Ecological Analysis and Cohort Study" 🧪

@ox.ac.uk @ndorms.bsky.social

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Immunity Debt for Seasonal Influenza After the COVID‐19 Pandemic and as a Result of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions: An Ecological Analysis and Cohort Study

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · Apr 1

New paper out today in the Am J Gastroenterol 🧪 journals.lww.com/ajg/abstract... @ndorms.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @daniellenewby.bsky.social @patripedregal.bsky.social

Incidence and survival of colorectal cancer in the United... : Official journal of the American College of Gastroenterology | ACG

alysed nationally representative primary care records from Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) GOLD and replicated in CPRD Aurum. We calculated incidence rates, and short- and long-term surviva...

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · Mar 19

New Editorial paper out 🧪

“Real-world evidence for regulatory purposes: The example of DARWIN EU®”

Also available in Spanish language: “Evidencias de la Vida real Para uso regulatorio: el ejemplo de DARWIN EU®”

www.revistafarmaciahospitalaria.es/es-real-worl...

Real-world evidence for regulatory purposes: The example of DARWIN EU® | Farmacia Hospitalaria

Randomised controlled trials have been recognised as the gold standard method for the demonstration of efficacy when a medicinal product is first

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · Mar 18

Nature: a reminder.. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Texas Measles Outbreak Spurs Call for Stronger Vaccine Advocacy

This Medical News article discusses the current measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico, increasing vaccine hesitancy in the US, and recent Trump administration actions.

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Dani Prieto Alhambra, He/Him @daniprietoalhambra.bsky.social · Mar 12

New paper out today #pacs #longcovid 🧪
www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...

Frontiers | Development of the ECHOES national dataset: a resource for monitoring post-acute and long-term COVID-19 health outcomes in England

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