Researcher

Dr Emma Link

Manager, Biostatistics and Senior Statistician

Biography

Emma is the Manager of the Biostatistics team and a Senior Statistician within the Centre for Biostatistics and Clinical Trials (BaCT). As a biostatistician for 20 years, she has extensive experience in clinical trials, observational and epidemiological study planning, implementation, data analysis, interpretation and dissemination. She is passionate about application and development of appropriate statistical methods, ultimately leading to improvements in human health outcomes. 

Research areas:

  • Biostatistics
  • Population and public health
  • Oncology
  • Data registries & data linkage
  • Clinical trials
  • Phase I study design, including 3+3 and BOIN
  • Epidemiology
  • Heart Disease 

Assistance provided with:

  • Study design
  • Analyses
  • Publications
  • Grant applications
  • Data Safety Monitoring Committees
  • Adaptive studies 

Emma has served as a trial statistician and Data Safety Monitoring Committee independent statistician for many local and international trials for Clinical Trial Sponsors in Australia. Emma has focussed on oncology and heart studies at a specialist hospital and Universities in Melbourne and Oxford, with successes in attracting grant funding and publications cited over 3600 times, and has also developed skills in team management and coordination and teaching. Emma has previously worked at the University of Oxford in the Clinical Trials Service Unit and Monash University Departments of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and Medicine, and tutoring.

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Researcher

Dr Emma Link

Manager, Biostatistics and Senior Statistician
Cancer types Blood, Breast, Cancer Unknown Primary, Genitourinary Oncology, Gynae Oncology, Head and Neck, Lower Gastrointestinal, Lung, Melanoma Skin, Neuro Oncology, Neuroendocrine Tumours, Paediatric, Sarcoma, Upper Gastrointestinal
Qualifications BSc (Sci Schol Prog) (Honours), D Phil
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