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Manage the complete thesis journey in one workspace.

From a defensible research question to final submission, with the guide, the protocol and every version in one place.

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The problem

What goes wrong today.

Students often choose repetitive or low-feasibility topics, protocols vary widely in structure and statistical planning, and supervision depends on ad-hoc meetings and repeated document versions. The project ends up spread across Word files, email and messaging apps.

Who it is for

  • PG and UG students
  • Doctors, investigators and researchers
  • Faculty, guides and mentors
  • Biostatisticians and methodology experts

What MRB does

One record for the whole journey.

MRB gives every thesis or study one longitudinal record. The topic, synopsis, methodology, statistics plan, guide comments and milestones live together, and the structured protocol feeds ethics, data capture and publication later without re-entry.

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Key capabilities

Modules in Academic Research.

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AI Topic Selector

From a broad idea to a defensible research question.

  • Department and area-of-interest intake
  • Question structuring with frameworks such as PICO/PICOT
  • Novelty, feasibility and ethical acceptability checks
  • Curated topic library by department
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Thesis Assist

One longitudinal thesis record instead of disconnected files.

  • Milestones from topic approval to final submission
  • Document checklist and version control
  • Guide comments, corrections and approvals
  • Reminders and due dates
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Protocol & Synopsis Builder

Build a research protocol once, and reuse it throughout the project.

  • Guided section-by-section authoring
  • Design-specific fields, endpoints and eligibility
  • Version history and change log
  • Export to institutional and EC formats
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Methodology & Biostatistics

Design the study correctly before the data are collected.

  • Study-design selection support
  • Sample-size workflow and assumptions
  • Statistical analysis plan
  • Biostatistician review workflow
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Faculty Review & Mentorship

Structured mentorship with visible progress.

  • Section-level comments and review status
  • Request-revision and approve workflow
  • Progress dashboard across supervisees
  • Reminders for pending reviews
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Project Tracking

Know the status of every research project at any time.

  • Status, milestones and tasks
  • Recruitment and data-collection progress
  • Amendment and decision history
  • Close-out checklist
Planned

Data Capture

Collect structured research data directly against the approved study.

  • Study-specific eCRF forms
  • Coded, non-identifying research IDs
  • Validation rules and query workflow
  • Export for analysis with audit trail

Typical workflow

How a project moves through it.

  1. Discover and lock a topic
  2. Build the synopsis and protocol
  3. Guide review and revision
  4. Ethics submission
  5. Collect data and track milestones
  6. Analyse and submit the thesis

Outputs

What you end up with.

  • A research topic with a structured rationale
  • A review-ready, reusable protocol
  • A traceable supervision history
  • A project dashboard showing what is done, pending and next

Institutional value

What the institution gains.

  • Consistent protocol quality across departments
  • Visibility of every student project and pending review
  • Less administrative back-and-forth for guides
  • A clean hand-off into ethics, publication and the repository

Related solutions

Where the record goes next.

  • Core

    Ethics & Governance

    An end-to-end digital platform for Ethics Committee submission, review, meetings, decisions and archival.

    IEC / EC Digital Platform · AI-Assisted Scientific & Ethics Review · Continuing Oversight · Research Integrity & Quality

    Explore Ethics & Governance
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    Publication & Indexing

    Index completed work in a searchable institutional repository, then carry it through manuscript, journal selection and submission.

    Index My Thesis · Institutional Research Repository · Publication Assist · Research Integrity Checks

    Explore Publication & Indexing

Next step

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See how MRB fits your departments, your Ethics Committee and your Research Office.

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