Mark Hughes Foundation Centre for Brain Cancer Research shared on LinkedIn:
“Our newest team member started this week, and we’d like to welcome Andrew Hide to the team. Andrew will be working on the Paediatric Brain Cancer Data Linkage Platform feasibility project in collaboration with and funded by the Robert Connor Dawes Foundation and located at the Mark Hughes Foundation Centre for Brain Cancer Research at the University of Newcastle.
A born and raised Novocastrian and graduate of the University of Newcastle, Andrew has had a varied career in computer control and support systems which makes him ideally suited to this role. Andrew says:
‘Everyone is being extremely kind to me as the new team member, which is greatly appreciated while I’m getting into the challenges of the project.’
This project forms part of the broader National Imaging Data Capture and Management project that Robert Connor Dawes is funding.
Andrew will be developing the digital infrastructure and computational workflows to combine two key sources of brain cancer data, neuroimaging and clinical data. By bringing together existing imaging data with clinical data workflows we aim to demonstrate how researchers can leverage the power of data to support new, collaborative discovery and treatment feasibility studies. Andrew adds.
‘A friend-of-a-friend’s little girl had brain cancer a few years ago, which makes it especially gratifying to be working on a project that will hopefully make things better for other children like her.’
We’re very excited about this project which is a great step forward for collaborative brain cancer research.”
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