by Martin Schumacher the institute has become an internationally renowned research hub for biostatistics in Germany. There were several international symposia focused on methodology, Martin Schumacher also recurrently hosted conferences on medical statistics in Oberwolfach and the International Biometrical Conference (IBC) in 2002, as well as the third meeting of the German Consortium in Statistics (DAGStat 2013). His international reputation can also be gleaned by the fact that he got invited to give the 21st Bradford Hill Memorial Lecture in 2012. Under the clinical aspect the Cochrane Collaboration/German Cochrane Center as well as the German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS) need to be mentioned. Martin Schumacher is the (co-)author of over 250 scientific publications and oversaw more than 30 dissertations. He published many papers about various methodological and statistical aspects of the planning and analysis of studies in the field of clinical epidemiology. Here, the implementation of the newly developed statistical methods in clinical practice and therefore a close cooperation with various clinical partners was the focus of the research. Publications Methodik klinischer Studien: Methodische Grundlagen der Planung, Durchführung und Auswertung. Martin Schumacher, Gabi Schulgen, Springer 2008. Competing Risks and Multistate Models with R. Jan Beyersmann, Arthur Allignol, Martin Schumacher, Springer 2012. Honors Bradford Hill Memorial Lecture (2012) Honorary member of the German Chapter of the International Biometrical Society (2014) Honorary member of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (2015) Honorary Life Member of the International Biometric Society (2018) External links Institute webpage Martin Schumacher on the Mathematics Genealogy Project References 1950 births Biostatisticians Living people German statisticians Academic staff of the University of Freiburg