CURRICULUM VITAE  
       
  Christian Schmidhauser, PhD  
   
  Education:
     
 
1995-1997
 Postgraduate Studies in Applied Statistics, Diploma from the ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Zurich
     
 
1989-1993
 Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley, Lawerence Berkeley Laboratories
     
 
1988
 PhD from the University of Zurich, Institute for Cytology. Thesis: "Studies on the invasive behavior of mammalian cells in vitro"
     
 
1983
 Diploma from the University of Zurich, Institute for Cytology. Thesis: "Isolation and characterization of cell-cell contact proteins of dictyostelium discoideum"
     
 
1978-1983
 Study of Biology at the University of Zurich, Philosophical Faculty II
     
     
   
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  Positions:
     
  Present position: Since 2003 owner and senior statistician of la volta statistics, specializing in statistical analysis, modeling and data interpretation

Main expertise on:
  • analyses of data for clinical trials (mainly phase II to phase IV)
  • consulting on data collection, analysis and interpretation
  • selection, evaluation and presentation of relevant business information
  Past postitions:

1996 - 2003
 Senior Statistician, co-owner of "brunner & hess software ag"

Project management, development of monitoring systems for pharmaceutical trials, mainly phase III, phase IV (according to GCP and ICH), and post marketing surveillance

Power estimations, statistical analyses, statistical analysis plans, clinical research reports, consulting of clients on statistical issues, interaction with Health Authorities. Statistical modeling, automation of repeated processes (including automation of layouts for presentations); specialized in SPSS and VBA programming
     
 
1993-1995
 Research group leader, Department of Biochemistry I, ETH Zurich. Analyzed mutations within an extra cellular matrix (ECM) responsive enhancer. Establishing a structural and chromatin based concept for ECM dependent gene regulation
     
 
1989-1993
 Postdoctoral fellow, LBL-CMB, University of California at Berkeley. Developing of an extra cellular matrix (ECM) responsive mammary cell line. Promoter analyses and localization of an ECM responsive enhancer
     
 
1984-1988
 PhD research student, Institute for Cytology, University of Zurich. Studies of the invasive behavior of fibrosarcoma cells
   
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  Expertise in programming:
  • SPSS (statistical Software)
  • R (statistical Software)
  • SAS (statistical Software)
  • VBA, Visual Basic for Applications
  • Programming of database applications
  • Python
     
     
  Languages: German, English, Spanish, French
     
 
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