The PhD Programme in Quantitative Biology and Medicine with concentration in Biostatistics and Health Data Science (PhD-QBM-BHDS) aims to:
Advance health and biomedical sciences through the development and application of innovative statistical and data science methods.
Train quantitative scientists who will master specialized areas in biostatistics and data science and their applications in health and biomedical research.
The PhD-QBM-BHDS programme is for students who have an undergraduate or a master’s degree in a quantitative discipline such as statistics, data science, engineering, demography and epidemiology. Students in our programme will develop innovative statistical and data science solutions and apply them to solve real-life problems in health and biomedical sciences.
Major methodological research areas include:
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Design and analysis of clinical trials, including adaptive and cluster trials
- Dynamic treatment regime
- Diagnostic medicine
- High dimensional “omics” data
- Pleiotropy studies
- Recurrent events in cohort and case-control studies
- Time-to-event analysis
- Quantification of quality of life and subjective health outcomes
Major application areas include:
- Big data analytics in healthcare
- Clinical trials in chronic diseases
- Emergency medicine
- Genetic epidemiology
- Quality of life in chronic diseases and palliative care
- Medical devices
- Vaccines and infectious diseases