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NEMIC/DERI Seminar with Alexander J Weir from Canon Medical Research Europe

When: Friday, October 27, 2023, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Where: Zoom

Speaker: Alexander J Weir from Canon Medical Research Europe

Zoom Link: https://qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81148100921

 “Taking Precision Medicine beyond Pharmacogenomics; The advent of individualised treatment pathways”.

Biography:   Sandy Weir received the B.Eng. degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering (first class honours) from Heriot-Watt University, in 1997, and completed an Engineering Doctorate in Applied Photonics at Heriot-Watt University in 2016. He has thirty-years of software development experience covering the full development life-cycle and has led several high-profile projects. He has worked for a range of companies, including British Aerospace, Cadence Design Systems and Thales Electronic Solutions, and has a diverse range of commercial experiences, from defence and telecommunications, to short-range wireless technologies, including Bluetooth, DECT and UWB. In 2010 he branched into the field of healthcare technology. From 2010 to 2017 he developed and led medical technology innovation activities at the Medical Device Unit at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, where he was Technical Operations Manager. He has served as a member of the European Commission working group on mHealth assessment guidelines from 2015 to 2016. In June 2017 he joined Toshiba Medical Visualisation Systems Europe, now Canon Medical Research Europe, where he is a Senior Technical Manager with responsibility for the AI Research group and AI Centre of Excellence at their design centre in Edinburgh. As part of this role, he has been the Program Manager for several large-scale collaborative research programmes, including iCAIRD, INCISE and SiPF Living Lab Advanced Radiogenomics project. His interests include health informatics, the application of AI and machine learning in a broad range of applications in healthcare, signal and image processing, mHealth/eHealth, cloud-based services, and the Internet of Things. In 2022, Sandy joined the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee (RKEC), which recommends and advises the SFC Board on research and knowledge exchange strategy, policy and funding issues relevant to Scottish higher education institutions and colleges. He is also a member of the University of Glasgow’s Strength-in-Places Living Lab Delivery Board.

 

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