Month: October 2019

CALC Episode 1: From Molecule to Patient: The Statistician’s Role in Developing New Medicines

The Drug Development Process How do we develop new medicines to treat nasty and debilitating diseases?  It all starts by discovering a novel target molecule in the lab. Fast forward 12 years and an average expenditure of 1.5 billion dollars we hopefully get the thumbs up from health authority bodies to license the medicine for public …

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Current trends in pharmaceutical and how they will affect you as a statistician

Interview with Richard Zink What bigger trends do we see in the biopharmaceutical industry, which will have an impact for statisticians? . . . in terms of technology changes?. . . in terms of regulatory changes?. . . in terms of political/society changes?What can statisticians do to prepare for these changes? In this discussion with …

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Natural language processing – how the analyses of unstructured text data can help us

Interview with Jennings Xu Why is text mining so important? What are the typical challenges and research questions in this area? Are there any typical ones for medical/pharmaceutical research? What data sources could we tap into? What are some foundational concepts in the natural language process? In this episode, I speak with Jennings Xu, who …

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CALC Episode 0: Introduction to PSI CALC Podcast Series

Do you have a passion for numbers and want to save lives? The PSI CALC podcast is a 5 part series occurring bi-weekly. In this series, Alexander and members of the PSI CALC team discuss medical statistics as a career option. This series is aimed at university students reading Mathematics or Statistics wanting to know …

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What statisticians can learn from Leonardo Da Vinci

Interview with Tricia Aanderud What can you learn from Leonardo Da Vinci on how to put things into perspective?Do you struggle with data communication? How important is data visualization? Storytelling is one of the great leadership skills that play a role in communication. Through stories, you can create alignment and you can influence others. It’s …

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