There were a couple of ongoing personal research collaborations with Novartis in the Department of Mathematical Sciences that were brought together to develop a set of challenges for Novartis’s participation in ITT12 in September 2020.
These consisted of questions exploring modelling and data integration in pharmacokinetics models, and finding effective routes to drug development for liver disease. Although the Novartis participants were based in Basel, the online format of the ITT allowed them to fully participate and the discussions during the week led to a co-funded and co-supervised PhD project exploring differential privacy in clinical research being undertaken by Ruchen Liu, and a Novartis-funded research internship.
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