Chris Weir is Professor of Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials in the Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit of the Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh.  He is an experienced health services researcher and clinical trials statistician, with particular research interests in clinical trials methodology including the development of efficient adaptive trial designs.

He has contributed to the design of MND-SMART and as trial statistician will lead on the development of its statistical analysis plan and the delivery of the interim and final analyses of the trial.