SAS Life Sciences Analytics School
for Students

Part 1: Innovation & Transformation in the Industry ; how AI is helping Lifesciences companies to innovate
Mark Wolff, Advisory Industry Consultant and Chief Health Analytics Strategist, SAS

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• Agentic AI, the Future of Life Sciences? - How to Balance Innovation and Trust
  Tamara Fischer, Principal Data Scientist, SAS

• Rewriting the Rules of R&D: how synthetic data is Transforming life sciences
  Lisa Murch, Senior Life Sciences Industry Consultant, SAS

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Why a SAS career in Life Sciences?
Glyn Townsend, Senior Director, Education, SAS

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Part 3

• SAS Academics Program – what’s in for me?
  Markus Grau, Global Academic Program Manager, SAS
• Onboarding onto SAS Skillbuilder and SAS Viya for Learners
  Joshi Madivada, Senior Associate Global Academic Program Manager, SAS

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Is Life Sciences the most interesting industry? Jonathan Riches, Senior Director, Global Accounts Management, SAS

Part 1

• Coding in the clinic: automating histology review in kidney transplantation
  Pre-Implantation trial of Histopathology in renal Allografts
  Tobi Ayorinde, NIHR Clinical Lecturer, University of Cambridge

• Development of Breast Cancer Detection Tool – Anglia Ruskin University
  SAS Curiosity Cup 2025 Winner
  Team Machine Learning Dynamite: Omoegbemwen Aigbe, Chi Wei Bernadette Chan, Richard Malatesta, Yazid Shuaibu

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• Bring your IDE of choice - be agile in the way you program
  Olivier Bouchard, Principal Business Solution Manager, SAS

• The new age of “On Demand Analytics for all” compute environment SAS Workbench is ready for you
  (Download) Margarita Mersiyanova, Life Sciences Industry Consultant, SAS
  (Download) Daniel Christen (remote), Technical Account Manager, SAS

Part 3

AI & Generative AI: Transforming the Life Sciences and Healthcare industry - Expert Panel

• Fabio Rigat, Executive Director, GI Strategy Head, AstraZeneca
• Prof. Raj Jena, Consultant in Clinical Oncology / Data Science and Machine Learning Researcher, University of Cambridge
• Gavin Pettigrew, Professor of Clinical and Experimental Transplantation, University of Cambridge
• Dr. Mark Lambrecht, Global Director, Health Care and Life Sciences, SAS
• Mark Wolff, Advisory Industry Consultant and Chief Health Analytics Strategist, SAS