R at AstraZeneca: ​​upskilling our workforce through education, experience, and exposure

Join us on November 29th at 12PM EST to hear Gabriella Rustici & Guillaume Desachy share their experience about the R journey AstraZeneca is currently on.

The use of R continues to become more and more important at AstraZeneca. It is a true paradigm shift that we have embarked on! This shift has required upskilling our workforce to make them proficient R users. 

To do so, we are leveraging the 3Es of learning: education, experience and exposure. 

Learn more about their team's Data Science Educational Program and how the team at AstraZeneca has built their own strong community of R users - where learning takes place through experience and exposure.  

Speaker bios:
Gabriella is Data Science Learning Senior Director in Astrazeneca’s R&D Data Science & AI where she is responsible for developing a strategy for, and creating a centralised approach to, data science learning for R&D. Gabriella completed her PhD at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and previously run bioinformatics training programs at the University of Cambridge and the European Bioinformatics Institute, in the UK. She is passionate about designing, implementing and evaluating effective and scalable solutions to educate scientists and data science practitioners at all career stages.

Guillaume is passionate about helping bring new medicines to patients by leveraging the power of statistics and precision medicine. Since October 2020, he has been doing so at AstraZeneca where he works as a Statistical Science Director.

In addition, since March 2022, he have been leading a team of 15 collaborators focusing on building the community of R users at AstraZeneca, called R @ AZ.