Jiayuan Shi
Company
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Position
Biostatistician Intern
Responsibilities:
Performed statistical analysis and survival analysis of clinical trials pharmaceutical industry settings.
Created query results to address questions about trial, biomarker and patients, in the area of visit, specimen, technology (next-generation sequencing, immunohistochemistry), gene expression, etc.
Favorite Part?
Learning new things every day, practicing my SAS skills on data manipulation, learning to do statistical analyses on clinical trials, and having opportunities to present my outcomes to directors from other departments.
Advice?
SAS skills are really important if you want to be a biostatistician, and knowledge of relational database and SQL are also a plus.