Inaugural Lecture: Big Data, Big Picture, Big Challenge Professor Sudlow’s research focuses on collaborative efforts to generate reliable information about both the causes (in our genes, environment and lifestyle) of - and the effects of treatment on - major diseases that affect people in middle and older age. Cathie will describe how, over many years, we have used increasingly ‘big data’ approaches to study very large numbers of people such as: to establish that simple blood thinning treatments such as aspirin can prevent future heart attacks and strokes to unravel some of the differences between different stroke subtypes to discover genes that influence stroke. Cathie will explain how, in the last few years, as Chief Scientist for the UK Biobank study of half a million people, she has become involved in new big data challenges, in particular working out how to follow the health of UK Biobank’s 500,000 research participants and how to handle the incidental findings arising from brain and body scans of 100,000 of them. Oct 31 2016 17.30 - 18.30 Inaugural Lecture: Big Data, Big Picture, Big Challenge Professor Sudlow's inaugural lecture will discuss the work she is currently undertaking in the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences as well as how she got to where she is today. Lecture Theatre A, The Chancellor’s Building, 49 Little France Crescent, EH16 4SB
Inaugural Lecture: Big Data, Big Picture, Big Challenge Professor Sudlow’s research focuses on collaborative efforts to generate reliable information about both the causes (in our genes, environment and lifestyle) of - and the effects of treatment on - major diseases that affect people in middle and older age. Cathie will describe how, over many years, we have used increasingly ‘big data’ approaches to study very large numbers of people such as: to establish that simple blood thinning treatments such as aspirin can prevent future heart attacks and strokes to unravel some of the differences between different stroke subtypes to discover genes that influence stroke. Cathie will explain how, in the last few years, as Chief Scientist for the UK Biobank study of half a million people, she has become involved in new big data challenges, in particular working out how to follow the health of UK Biobank’s 500,000 research participants and how to handle the incidental findings arising from brain and body scans of 100,000 of them. Oct 31 2016 17.30 - 18.30 Inaugural Lecture: Big Data, Big Picture, Big Challenge Professor Sudlow's inaugural lecture will discuss the work she is currently undertaking in the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences as well as how she got to where she is today. Lecture Theatre A, The Chancellor’s Building, 49 Little France Crescent, EH16 4SB
Oct 31 2016 17.30 - 18.30 Inaugural Lecture: Big Data, Big Picture, Big Challenge Professor Sudlow's inaugural lecture will discuss the work she is currently undertaking in the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences as well as how she got to where she is today.
