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Christian Schmidhauser, PhD

Education:

1995-1997 Postgraduate Studies in Applied Statistics, Diploma from the ETH Zurich

1989-1993 Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley

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



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
  • selection, evaluation and presentation of relevant business information


Past postitions: Senior Statistician, co-owner of "brunner & hess software ag", from 1996 till 2003. 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 in statistical issues, interaction with Health Authorities. Statistical modeling, automation of repeated processes (including automation of layouts for presentations); specializing in SPSS and VBA programming.
 

Research group leader, Department of Biochemistry I, ETH Zurich. Analyzing mutations within an extra cellular matrix (ECM) responsive enhancer. Establishing a structural and chromatin based concept for ECM dependent gene regulation (1993-1995).

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 (1989-1993).

PhD research student, Institute for Cytology, University of Zurich. Studies of the invasive behavior of fibrosarcoma cells. (1984-1988)


Expertise in programming:
  • SPSS (statistical Software)
  • R (statistical Software)
  • SAS (statistical Software)
  • VBA, Visual Basic for Applications
  • Programming of database applications


Languages German, English, Spanish
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