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SUMMARY:Making and Using Medicines better using a data science approach - 
 Reecha Sofat (University of Liverpool)
DTSTART:20231019T123000Z
DTEND:20231019T133000Z
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CONTACT:Spencer Keene
DESCRIPTION:Medicines are one of the most common public health interventio
 ns. In England\, the NHS spends £20 billion on medicines however what is 
 not known is how this money is spent and if medicines have the effects tha
 t are intended. One of the reasons for this is that medicines data is not 
 routinely linked to health outcome data. Facilitated by Covid-19 some of t
 hese linkages are now possible. We have begun to show how these data can b
 e used to inform on clincal- and cost-effective medicines use. Medicines d
 evelopment can also be data driven. Just like using routine health data li
 nked to medicines\, embedding reseach into routine clinical care and enhan
 cing routine clinical phenotypes with multi-omic data can also lend itself
  to drug discovery. We will discuss data science approaches therefore to m
 aking and using medicines better.\n\nProfessor Sofat is a clinical pharmac
 ologist who joined the University of Liverpool in 2022. Her research invol
 ves embedding research into routine clinical care with a focus on making a
 nd using medicines better. A current focus is leveraging data to understan
 d disease and consequently\, drug development and use of medicines – inc
 luding genomic\, multi-omic and real world data. As well as using publicly
  available resources\, Reecha develops methods to create custom disease co
 horts as well as investigating individualised treatment strategies. Reecha
  also chairs local and regional medicines committees\, teaches pharmacolog
 y and therapeutics and delivers evidence-based medicines practice.\n\nReec
 ha is Vice President (Clinical) of the British Pharmacological Society\, a
 s well as an Associate Director for the British Heart Foundation Data Scie
 nce Centre and the Enhancing Cohorts Thematic lead.
LOCATION:Heart and Lung Research Institute (ground floor) or Virtually via
  Zoom
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