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- Research Associate
- MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL
- Inst of Clinical Trials &Methodology
- Faculty of Pop Health Sciences
Saiam joined the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at UCL as Research Associate and Statistician in 2016 to provide statistical support to clinical trials in the infections theme.
Saiam is currently an MPhil/PhD student working with James Carpenter, Matthew Sydes and Sharon Love on optimising the use of routinely collected health data in clinical trials.
Saiam graduated from Queen Mary University of London with Mathematics and Statistics BSc(Hons.) and was subsequently funded by the UK National Institute for Health Research to undertake a Research Methods Fellowship. He completed his Medical Statistics MSc at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and became fellow and Graduate Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society and is a member for the Society of Clinical Trials.
Outside of his role at UCL, Saiam is a director and trustee for Tower Hamlets Education Business Partnerships and is a school governor. He is a longstanding volunteer at the Disasters Emergency Committee member Islamic Relief UK and is an avid badminton player!


Saiam is a Doctoral Researcher in the area of electronic health records in clinical trials.
Saiam provides statistical support to the TB Alliance portfolio at the MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL on a part-time basis. More information about these studies can be found here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/tb/research/tb-research-programmes and https://www.tballiance.org/portfolio/trials
Previously, Saiam was trial statistician to the USAID-funded STREAM trials in multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. More information about STREAM can be found here: http://www.treattb.org/overview/
Saiam is a tutor on the the Clinical Trials MSc at the Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology.
01-OCT-2018 | Research Fellow and Statistician | MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL | Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, United Kingdom |
18-JUL-2016 – 30-SEP-2018 | Research Associate and Statistician | MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL | Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology, United Kingdom |
2016 | Master of Science | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | |
2014 | Bachelor of Science (Honours) | Queen Mary College, University of London |