It’s been a busy September for EDGEY who jetted off with James and Tim from the CIRU EDGE team to see his Canadian friends. EDGEY’s first stop was to Toronto to visit Rebecca Xu, James Schoales and Steven Sundquist from the Canadian Cancer Clinical Trials Network (3CTN).
At 3CTN they discussed how CIRU and EDGE can help with Patient and Public Involvement and involving researchers from rural populations across the Province of Ontario. James Schoales showed the team some fantastic new and innovative ways to utilise the data from EDGE within Power BI to help better understand publications from research based within the 3CTN network.
From Toronto, EDGEY, James and Tim jetted over to Edmonton and then to the city of Calgary in the Province Alberta to meet with the fantastic team at Alberta Innovates led by Tammy Mah-Fraser. Over the course of three days the team heard about some exciting initiative within the province including from the Alberta Supporting Patient Orientated Research unit (AbSPORu). AbSPORu offer support services for researchers looking for assistance with initiating research, gaining access to support services like data analysis, translating research impact and applying for grants. This data is then transposed to EDGE where the study is worked up to opening in collaboration with Alberta Innovates.
The week was rounded off with James speaking at the Alberta Clinical Health Research Conference about the Future of Clinical Research looking at exciting innovations in AI and machine learning and how these may influence more intelligent use of data in Clinical Trials and Health Care.
It was a very informative week across the Atlantic for EDGEY who has returned to the office enthused with some great ideas and user stories to tell.
Blog post written by Tim Gibbons,
International/Specialist Project Manager, CIRU
University of Southampton