Jonathon Kram and Adam Dinsmore

Jonathon Kram is a research assistant, and Adam Dinsmore an evaluation officer, working within the Wellcome Trust’s Strategic Planning & Policy Unit. The unit provides analysis, research and advice on policy and evaluation issues relevant to the trust’s mission to achieve extraordinary improvements in human and animal health by supporting the brightest minds in biomedical research.

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Unknown Unknowns: The War on Null and Negative Results

The Wellcome Trust, a large funder of biomedical research, is keen to ensure that the findings of that research are widely and openly shared. Here, Jonathon Kram and Adam Dinsmore from the trust’s evaluation team discuss why any apparent bias against writing up and publishing certain types of results would impede scientific progress.

9 years ago
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