NEWS

New publication: Introducing the need for a consensus-based framework for protocol modifications to improve trial trustworthiness

2026.04.26

Congratulations to Cora Burgwinkel (UZH), Clara Locher (UnivRennes), Leonhard Held (UZH) and Florian Naudet (UnivRennes) for their newly published article “Introducing the need for a consensus-based framework for protocol modifications to improve trial trustworthiness” in BMC Medicine.

You can find the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-026-04831-x

New online article: Retracted Randomized Clinical Trials From Superretractors and Top-Cited Scientists With Multiple Retractions

2026.04.16

Congratulations to Minoo Matbouriahi (UNIPD), Florian Naudet (UnivRennes), John Ioannidis (Stanford), Ioana A. Cristea (UNIPD), and others on the publication of the above-mentioned article.

You can find the full article here: doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2026.7424.

Science Communication

2026.04.14

On 03.11.2026 the last full-day professional training of our doctoral students will take place virtually under the direction of Brigitte Strahwald & Dr. Felicitas Witte. The topic will be Science Communication.

SHARE-CTD is participating in the 2026 ISCB/GMDS conference in Freiburg

2026.04.07

From September 27 to October 1, 2026, SHARE-CTD will participate in the ISCB/GMDS 2026 in Freiburg. Ka Hin Tai (UnivRennes), Giulia Varvarà (UnivRennes), Ulrich Mansmann (LMU), Marcel Müller (LMU), and Nikolaus von Bomhardt (LMU) will organize the workshop "A Sharing Intention Is Not Enough: Guided Experiments on Clinical Trial Data Quality and Reuse." We are delighted that their proposal was accepted!

Datathon 1 - Paper published: “Supporting the Reanalysis and Reuse of Clinical Trial Data: a case study"

2026.04.07

We are pleased to announce that the first joint publication by our 11 SHARE-CTD doctoral students has been published by Springer Nature under the title “Supporting the Reanalysis and Reuse of Clinical Trial Data: a case study".

The paper emerged from the first Datathon, which took place in Göttingen in July 2025 and aimed to reproduce a clinical trial in the field of oncology. The 11 doctoral students, divided into 5 teams and supervised by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Mansmann, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Sax, and Prof. Dr. Leonhard Held, reached the following conclusion: The conclusions of a large-scale oncology clinical trial were confirmed. Reporting gaps, such as incomplete protocols and broken links, should be addressed in future studies. This case study highlights the value of systematic reproducibility checks for the transparency of clinical research, as well as the challenges in data sharing with regard to reproducibility.

The full publication can be found here: DOI: 10.1186/s13063-026-09646-y.

Third Schooling in June 2026 online

2026.01.07

Led by Prof. Dr. Florian Naudet (University of Rennes, UNIVREN) the third SHARE-CTD schooling will take place online from June 1 to June 12, 2026.

Third Datathon in September 2026 in Göttingen

2025.12.19

Led by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Sax (University Medical Center Göttingen, UMG) the third SHARE-CTD datathon will take place at Rechenzentrum Göttingen from 7th to 11th of September 2026.