Speaker

Biography

Claire Brittain

Claire brings nearly two decades of experience in medical statistics, specializing in early phase pharmaceuticals. Throughout her career at GSK, Eli Lilly, and UCB, she has been primarily been focused on neuroscience, immunology and clinical pharmacology. With a strong interest in translational and methodology studies, Claire is committed to making statistics practical and ensuring that science remains central to every discussion.

She co-hosts PSI Professional Development Lunch and Learns and recently received the PSI Mick Godley award for her unwavering dedication and enthusiasm in nurturing the next generation of talented statisticians, programmers, and data scientists.

Steve Mallett

Steve started his career as a biochemist and joined the industry at Parexel working as a statistical programmer. He later moved to GSK where he worked for over 25 years, transitioning to a statistician role supporting a variety of medicine development projects. Steve was an active member of the PSI Careers and Academic Liaison Committee, where he organised classroom-based workshops and our flagship event at the Big Bang careers fair. In addition, Steve has delivered many science and stats-based workshops at GSK and directly through his sons' school. Steve also has a keen interest in data visualisation, and more recently has combined these interests by organising data viz workshops for young people at science-based careers events.

Nicola Voyle

Nicola has been a statistician with Roche for ~ 7 years primarily working in late phase neuroscience with a focus on Alzheimer's Disease. Nicola holds a BSc in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Bath and a PhD in Biostatistics from King's College London. Since her placement year with Roche during her undergraduate degree, Nicola has frequently engaged in STEM outreach activities and currently serves as an Enterprise Advisor for a local secondary school.

Doug Thompson

Doug supports the development of new medicines via the application of statistical & machine learning methods, to better aid data-driven decision making. Doug has spent the last 10 years working at GSK in various study and project statistician roles, before moving into the data sciences and most recently the Statistics and Data Science Innovation Hub.

Through partnership with the Data Inspiration Group, he has been developing a network of GSK volunteers, bringing virtual work experience and promoting “careers in data” to school & university students across the UK.

Emma Crawford

Emma has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for over 9 years, starting as an industrial placement student in clinical pharmacology with Pfizer and then after graduating was working as a late phase clinical trial statistician in clinical research organisations (CROs) before her current position in HTA Statistics at MSD.

Emma has been volunteering with PSI for over 8 years in the Careers group which has seen her organise a careers event alongside the PSI conference 2016 in Berlin, supported activities at school workshop events, given talks at universities and other careers events, participated in speed networking events and from 2017 - 2023 was involved in organising the annual careers event for university students, which saw her awarded the Mick Godley award at PSI Conference 2022 for her services to PSI. She is currently leading a subteam focussed on outreach within Schools.

In addition, Emma is also an active member of the HTA European Special Interest Group (eSIG) where she has coordinated the response to EUnetHTA21 public consultation on behalf of EFSPI as well as being involved in the organisation of eSIG meetings and EU HTA external engagement activities, including the HTA eSIG sessions at PSI Conference 2023.