Medical research is becoming increasingly quantitative as new technologies emerge that can capture thousands of measurements at increasingly higher resolution. Over the last decade, the field has progressed from profiling genomic information of whole samples to profiling individual cells. In order to translate these complex large datasets into medical discoveries, robust statistical methods and software are needed.
Dr Belinda Phipson is an internationally recognised early-career statistician working in bioinformatics and medical research. She has consistently leveraged advanced statistical ideas to develop novel methods for the analysis of genomic data. She has made these methods available to the global research community through the development of high-quality open-source software. In collaborations, she has used these tools to understand biological processes and to make discoveries of medical significance in cancer therapy, kidney development and disease, heart development, and stem cell biology.
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