My name is Pinky Damani, I'm with Bayer for 14yrs, originally from Mumbai, India, but settled in NJ, USA. I love to play cricket and badminton. Married, 2 children. Currently, working on Spectrum DMW platform with CDSA, Accenture and Oracle, part of Data Transformation and Ingestion Team, I'm very excited and happy to be part of DSA&I. Looking forward to our connect!

I am a "Senior Insight Solutions Lead" which means that I work in DAIS team and try to generate novel insights for our R&D (and beyond) organization

We met during Connect Clarify Commit event in May 2023 in Madrid.

Given the considerable amount of data that is collected throughout clinical trials, it can be asked if this data can be used to improve our understanding of the trial, regardless of outcome. The radiomics pilot seeks to provide a toolkit that is capable of analyzing the different modalities of information found in clinical trials (genome, gene expression, biomarker, clinical information, and imaging information) to derive insights into why a patient may be responding, or why a clinical trial was unsuccessful. The current efforts have focused on clinical trials in oncology, while collaborating with the RED-ONC function. Overall, the project is in its pilot state, and demonstrating a proof of concept, while documenting many challenges and learnings with the development of such a toolkit. Potential directions that could expand this toolbox include deriving the factors that best predict why a patient would stay in a clinical trial, and providing assistance with patient selection of clinical trials. Other potential directions involve suggesting why a particular trial may have been unsuccessful and providing that information back to the drug development team.