Simon Bate

Following a PhD in experimental design at Royal Holloway, University of London, Simon started his pharmaceutical career in the Discovery Statistics group at GlaxoSmithKline. He has also worked at CRO, supporting toxicologists and pharmacologists on the design and analysis of data from regulatory safety assessment and toxicology studies. He is the co-developer of InVivoStat, a free-to-use statistical software package for life-scientists and other researchers which won the 2018 RSS and PSI prize for Statistical Excellence in the Pharmaceutical Industry. He has spent the last 13 years at GSK supporting pre-clinical research and medicine. He has been a committee member of the PSI Toxicology SIG and the NC3Rs (National Centre for the 3Rs) experimental design project group and has given external training courses to professional and academic organizations, including the Karolinska Institute, Paris-Sud University, UCL, NC3Rs, European Summer School in Whole Animal Pharmacology and the British Association for Psychopharmacology. His is co-author of the textbook “The Design and Statistical Analysis of Animal Experiments”