Grup de Recerca en Bioestadística i Bioinformàtica

Upcoming GRBIO seminars

Organizer: Cristian Tebé

Online, si voleu assistir-hi, contacteu amb grbio@grbio.eu

Un paquet Divine d’R

In this seminar we present the DIVINE package, a collection of curated datasets along with convenient data management functions. The datasets (e.g., patient demographics, symptoms, treatments, and outcomes) came from a multicenter COVID-19 study including data of 5813 patients from four waves of the pandemic in the south metropolitan area of Barcelona. The datasets in this package enable users to practice and test various data manipulation workflows. Moreover, the DIVINE package contains functions to inspect, clean, merge, summarize, visualize, and export data efficiently.

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Natàlia Pallarès holds a degree in Mathematics (UPC, 2012), a master's degree in Statistics and Operational Research (UPC-UB, 2014) and a PhD in Medicine and Translational Research (UB, 2023). From 2017 to 2023, she worked as a statistician at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain, providing statistical advice to researchers. Since 2023, she has worked as a statistician at the Biostatistics Support and Research Unit (IGTP) in Badalona. She has also worked as an associate professor at several Catalan universities, including the UAB and the UB, since 2015.

João Carmezim is graduated from the Universidade do Porto with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology (2018) and from the Universitat de València with a Master’s degree in Biostatistics (2020). From 2021 to 2023, I worked as a statistician at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain, where I provided statistical support for various biomedical research projects. Since 2023, I have been working as a statistician at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute and Hospital (IGTP) in Badalona. In September of this year, I began my PhD studies in Statistics and Operations Research at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), focusing on multistate models and their application to the modeling of disease progression.

Híbrid: presencialment a la sala de reunions C5202 de l'edifici C5 del Campus Nord. Per assistir online, contacteu amb grbio@grbio.eu

Epidemiological research using administrative registers – is it that straightforward?

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Oleguer Plana-Ripoll holds master’s degrees in mathematics and statistics, along with a PhD in epidemiology completed in 2016. Since earning his doctorate, he has received several prestigious awards for early career researchers, including a Marie Curie Fellowship in 2019, a Lundbeck Fellowship in 2021, a Sapere Aude Grant in 2022, and an ERC Starting Grant in 2024. In 2025, he joined ISGlobal as a Research Assistant Professor, a role he combines with his position as Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at Aarhus University in Denmark. He leads the Population Mental Health Group, which applies advanced epidemiological methods and large-scale administrative data—such as electronic healthcare records—to investigate the causes and consequences of mental disorders.