David Higgins

David Higgins

David Higgins is a mathematician and computer scientist with a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience. In recent years, he has led industrial research projects in pharma R&D, and built behavioral models for patient interventions via consumer health technology. Currently, he is a visiting researcher at the Berlin Institute of Health. He is mentor to a number of AI‐driven health‐tech spin‐outs. David’s blog on predictive modelling in healthcare is at http://digitizingbiology.com/

David Higgins is a mathematician and computer scientist with a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience. In recent years, he has led industrial research projects in pharma R&D, and built behavioral models for patient interventions via consumer health technology. Currently, he is a visiting researcher at the Berlin Institute of Health. He is mentor to a number of AI‐driven health‐tech spin‐outs. David’s blog on predictive modelling in healthcare is at http://digitizingbiology.com/

Articles: David Higgins

Pharma’s Data Problem

Opinion / Drs David Higgins and Marco F Schmidt highlight the gap that exists between the abundant discussions around technological innovation in healthcare and implementation and why pharma needs to develop its own proprietary approaches to crunching ‘wide data’.   Data is the new oil, but biomedical data – despite its abundance – is closer to fracking…

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