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Lucinda Billingham

Lucinda Billingham MSc, PhD

Biotechnology
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

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Lucinda Billingham is a Professor of Biostatistics within the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences at the University of Birmingham. She has worked for over 25 years as a Biostatistician at their Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit and is now Director of Biostatistics for the unit working with a large team of Biostatisticians on an extensive portfolio of early and late phase trials.

Lucinda has a special interest in lung cancer research and is the Chief Biostatistician for the National Lung Matrix Trial. As well to her Ph.D. research on statistical methods for the simultaneous analysis of quality of life and survival data, other key areas of expertise include the application of Bayesian methods in trials, design, and analysis of trials in rare cancers, early phase trial design, and statistical methodology for biomarker discovery, validation, and evaluation for stratified medicine. She lectures on a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Birmingham, teaches widely on external courses, and provides Ph.D. supervision.
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