MRC Biostatistics Unit
What is your role at the BSU? I am a MRC Postdoctoral Fellow and work with Sofia Villar. My work is mostly methodological, focusing on optimal decision-making in clinical trials and health economics. What did you do before joining the Unit? Before joining the Unit, I was a PhD student in Statistics at the University […]
A day in the life of Laura Bondi
What is your role at the BSU? I joined the Unit in September 2021 as a Research Associate, and I work with Brian Tom and Sylvia Richardson. What did you do before joining the Unit? I completed a PhD in Statistics at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. My PhD thesis focused on statistical models to […]
A day in the life of Filippo Pagani
What is your role at the BSU? I am a Research Associate, so essentially a junior researcher. I am working with Sylvia Richardson and Paul Kirk on developing statistical algorithms using a methodology called Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) to analyse biomedical data more efficiently. I am also affiliated with a research grant called Bayes4health, […]
A day in the life of Richard Moulange
Richard Moulange is a first-year PhD student, supervised by Sach Mukherjee and Oscar Rueda and he joined the BSU in October 2021. Together with Sach and Oscar, Richard is researching how machine learning (ML) approaches can improve cancer diagnosis and treatment and is particularly interested in how transfer learning and causality can make ML systems […]