"Identification of predictive and causal biomarkers of disease" Spring School

16 - 19 March 2020, The University of Manchester, UK

The Spring school will take place at the University of Manchester 1pm 16th - 1pm 19th March 2020. It will cover a range of topics including:

· Types of bimedical/biomarker data (e.g. multi-omics) and issues for integration

· Imaging biomakers in health care, Image registration

· Statistical methods for representing shape and their application in radiology biomarkers

· Interpretability and how to design this into imaging approaches

· Conditional independence using direct acylic graphs (DAGs)

· Causal inference and recent development of Mendelian randomisation methods

· Situated learning.

Registration fee is £125 (including lunch, refreshments and Spring School dinner on Wednesday 18th March).


Full programme is available HERE.

Organising committee: Hui Guo, Arpana Verma, Kenneth Muir, Martin Fergie, John Owen


This Spring school is sponsored by