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Nobel prize-winning neural nets and pharmacometrics

As a (mostly) computational scientist, I was excited to see both the Nobel prizes in physics and chemistry being awarded for computational work last week. In particular, the Physics price on Artificial neural networks, a fundamental building block in many … Continue reading

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How can our genes affect drug levels?

We all respond to drugs differently. As many of you have pointed out while using the coffee simulator https://janicegoh.shinyapps.io/CoffeeSimulator/ over the past few months, the profile shown there does not always accurately describe your experience with coffee. This is because … Continue reading

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Scientific crystal balls – how pharmacometrics is like the weather forecast and why we need it

Hi all, I’m Janice, your SG pharmacometrician. To many of you, pharmacometrics, the study of modeling and simulation of drug levels and their outcomes, probably isn’t a term that comes easily to mind or something that you will regularly come … Continue reading

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