MRC Biostatistics Unit

Just one week left to register your place at our annual flagship event, which will be dedicated to the work and achievements of Prof Peter Armitage. 21st Armitage Workshop and Lecture 12th Nov, Cambridge Register 👇 https://lnkd.in/egFH-T2e #DataScienceEvents #BiostatisticsEvents #ClinicalTrials University of Cambridge

PhD done! 🎓 I am incredibly grateful for all the amazing people I have met and the chance to work on such a fascinating topic: developing machine learning to improve healthcare for all! If you are interested, you can read more here: https://lnkd.in/exMaAVnN

On my way back to London, after attending a fantastic 1.5 day course on Response Adaptive methods for #clinicaltrials at MRC Biostatistics Unit at Cambridge. Massive thanks to Sofia S. Villar Lukas Pin David Robertson Rajenki Das for delivering an excellent course with lots of interesting discussions considering the context of trials' aims and the methods' assets- limitations. Highly recommend it to everyone working in trials!! Stay tuned for their courses 👉https://lnkd.in/ebeKr7i8 Check out the content of their talks here 👇

I’ve had the privilege of having Oscar M Rueda as my PhD supervisor for over four years. His guidance has been invaluable, helping me grow as a researcher. His lab is a perfect blend of mathematical modelling, statistics and biology! I couldn't have asked for a better mentor! Come and join the MRC Biostatistics Unit as a postdoc in his group at the University of Cambridge – this is a fantastic opportunity for anyone passionate about statistics, machine learning, and cancer research! https://lnkd.in/dp8nrZ2w

Interested in doing a #PhD in #Biostatistics #DataScience? We will be at the University of Cambridge Postgraduate Open Day. Meet us and find out more about what it's like to do a PhD at our Unit. Fri 8th Nov, 12:00 - 12:45, online. Find out more and register - https://lnkd.in/g3QMiZZA #PhDRecruitment

"I hope that my current research will help to close some of the racial health inequality." Meet Folarin Oyebolu, Research Associate at the BSU. Folarin discusses his route to biostatistics, his early influences & what #BlackHistoryMonth means to him. 👇 https://lnkd.in/eNACQJeb University of Cambridge Medical Research Council #Biostatistics

New evidence about whether Air Cleaning Units can reduce hospital-acquired #Infections Research led by Rebecca Brock, Victoria Keevil, Robert Goudie & colleagues - University of Cambridge Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre Read more: https://lnkd.in/ekyqFQhq Full paper: https://lnkd.in/efMAbSkn #COVID19 #HospitalAcquiredInfections #AirClearningUnits #Biostatistics

Last week, I completed my internship at the MRC Biostatistics Unit. We investigated both supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods to try to detect cancer in patients and to monitor its severity, focusing on achieving good performance while ensuring our methods were explainable. I modified and developed methods such as mixture models and non-negative matrix factorization to maximize their performance on our data. I hope that these methods can be refined further and perhaps one day be used to improve cancer treatment. My favorite part of the internship was getting to meet so many wonderful people at the BSU. Hearing about many intriguing topics in modern bio-statistical research, as well as sharing ideas with my fellow interns, was truly amazing. At the end of the internship, we had the opportunity to present our work to the whole department and see what everyone else had been working on. I also discussed my project with some senior members of the BSU and got even more ideas for new things that I look forward to exploring in the future.

BSU #PhD student, Bethany Heath, recently spoke at the Royal Statistical Society Conference on evaluating pooled testing designs in community & healthcare settings for emerging epidemics 🤩 "It was an amazing experience, not only to share my research but to also meet and discuss with leaders in my field"

I will be presenting at the applibugs seminar on December 12th in Paris among other interesting talks about the use of Bayesian methods in various applications! Very promising program, Don’t forget to register!