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AstraZeneca and the MRC Biostatistics Unit are holding a jointly sponsored one day Science Symposium on: 'All Data Great and Small: Advancing clinical research through quantitative science' Date: Wednesday 22nd March 2017 Venue: Churchill Cambridge, Cambridge Talks include: Data Great Genomics in Drug Discovery Key Note Speaker: Prof John Whittaker, VP Target Sciences, GSK Making Money and Doing Good: Industrial Exploitation of Private Data in the Public Interest Dr Paul Taylor, Reader in Health Informatics, University College London Integrating multiple sources and shapes of genomic data to prioritise autoimmune disease-candidate genes Dr Chris Wallace, MRC Biostatistics Unit The AZ/MedI Genomics Initiative: From building our foundations to impacting our pipeline Dr Mathew Woodwark, AstraZeneca-Medimmune Data Small Clinical trials in small populations; should we do them differently? Key Note speaker: Prof Nigel Stallard, Professor of Medical Statistics, Warwick University The Challenge of "Small Data": Rare Diseases and Ways to Study Them Prof Stephen Senn, Head of Competence Centre for Methodology & Statistics, Luxembourg Institute of Health Use of frequentist and Bayesian approaches for extrapolating from adult efficacy data to design and interpret confirmatory trials in children Dr Lisa Hampson, Principal Statistician, Statistical Innovation, Advanced Analytics Centre, AstraZeneca Incorporating patient benefit goals into trial design: a discussion for rare diseases Dr Sofia Villar, MRC Biostatistics Unit A few spaces remain for this unique, complimentary event. Register free at: http://az-mrcsciencesymposium2017.eventbrite.co.uk Please do forward this message to any colleagues who may be interested in attending. Alison Quenault Communications Officer MRC Biostatistics Unit University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine Cambridge Institute of Public Health Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge Biomedical Campus Cambridge CB2 0SR Tel: +44-(0)1223-768263 Email: [log in to unmask] Website: www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk <http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/> Follow us on Twitter: @MRC_BSU <https://twitter.com/MRC_BSU> As of the 1st December 2016, the MRC Biostatistics Unit (BSU) is part of the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.