PowerBI Resources

PowerBI is a very useful tool for working with data and visualization. PowerBI models can be developed based on data from different sources:on-line services or databases plus local files. In some cases it is even easier to build basic reports in PowerBI than in excel.

Building reports and models with PowerBI can be done without prior knowledge. Most of questions related to formulas, models can be addresses via PowerBI Community forum: https://community.powerbi.com/

PowerBI courses are available also for free, like this one @ EdX

Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Power BI

Plus regular updates and demos from PowerBI YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/mspowerbi/videos

PowerBI Client Free Download: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/get-started/

4 Life Science events in Zurich and Basel in June 2019

LifeScience Forum Basel on June 21st 2019 : Drugs, Digitalisation,Transformation. From Devil's Stuff to Miracle Cure?

• Site: http://www.lifescienceforumbasel.org/
• Registration : https://lsfb.eventsmart.com/events/12th-lsfb/ 

SAS Global Health Care and Life Sciences Executive Forum 2019, June 25th 

• Site and registration: https://www.sas.com/sas/events/19/life-science-executive-forum.html#register

Blockchain Innovation in Life Science by Espeo Blockchain

• Agenda and Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blockchain-innovation-in-life-science-tickets-61776612511

Blockchain in Pharma Network, DAOs & Pharma (Decentralised Autonomous Organisations), Thursday, June 27, 2019

• Info and Registration: https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-in-Pharma-Network/events/262193395/

Project Management Courses

Project Management courses from Rochester Institute of Technology (RITx) on EDX. Free preview is available:

• Project Management Life Cycle (RITx: PM9001x) 
• Best Practices for Project Management Success (RITx: PM9002x) 
• International Project Management RITx+PM9003x+1T2019

Microsoft and MS Projects. Free preview is available

• Managing Projects & Portfolios with Microsoft PPM 
• Managing Projects with Microsoft Project

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) course:

• Project Management: Mastering Complexity 

AI/ML in Clinical Trials

Capterra Blog:

• How Deep Learning is Changing Healthcare Part 1: Diagnosis 
• How Deep Learning Is Changing Healthcare Part 2: Prevention

Artificial intelligence as a medical device in radiology: ethical and regulatory issues in Europe and the United States

Governing artificial intelligence: ethical, legal and technical opportunities and challenges | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 

Deep learning architectures for multi-label classification of intelligent health risk prediction 

Big Data Analytics in Medicine and Healthcare 

Blockchain in Clinical Trials

Pfizer and Genentech Turn To Ethereum Blockchain
https://www.ethnews.com/pfizer-and-genentech-turn-to-ethereum-blockchain

sunny lake: Community-based clinical research
http://sunnylake.io/

Big Pharma Seeks DLT Solution for Drug Costs
https://www.coindesk.com/blockchain-day-big-pharma-seeks-dlt-solution-drug-costs/

Blockchain technology for improving clinical research quality
https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-017-2035-z

Information Exchange and Data Transformation (INFORMED)
https://www.fda.gov/aboutfda/centersoffices/officeofmedicalproductsandtobacco/oce/ucm543768.htm

Silicon Valley Business Institute | Blockchain | GDIS 2018 Project Launch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaijbFIYJPg

Panel 1: The Future of Healthcare, Powered by Blockchain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVlDYaN1FJE


Pharma Integrates 2018: Blockchain: More efficient and secure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBm786NfiPU

H2020, GDPR, MDR and International Clinical Trial Regulation Blockchain Integrates CRO Solution from ClinicalStudio.EU to Manage Compliance with Smartillions Smart Contracts
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180517006404/en/H2020-GDPR-MDR-International-Clinical-Trial-Regulation

Blockchain: Understanding Its Uses and Implications
https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:LinuxFoundationX+LFS170x+2T2018/course/

Coworking, Cafe, Events - in Zürich and around

Coworking is a self-directed, collaborative, flexible and voluntary work that is based on mutual trust and the sharing of common core values between its participants.

TESSINERPLATZ

Coworking Lounge,

Tessinerplatz 7, 8002 Zurich

https://www.tessinerplatz.ch/events

ImpactHUB Zurich 

https://zurich.impacthub.ch/events/

CAFÉ AUER&CO

Sihlquai 131

8005 Zürich

Schweiz

https://zurich.impacthub.ch/spaces/auer-co/

Selnaustrasse 25

Zürich

Schweiz

https://zurich.impacthub.ch/spaces/kraftwerk-location/

Spheres

Hardturmstrasse 66

CH-8005 Zürich

https://spheres.cc/buehne/kalender/

BUBBLES, 

Strassburgstrasse 15, 

8004 Zürich, BEIM STAUFFACHER,

http://www.cafe-bubbles.ch/Veranstaltungen/

Locations:

https://www.coworking.coffee/
https://www.wework.com/
https://www.meetup.com/
https://coworkingmap.org/
https://www.coworkingresources.org/blog/top-websites-to-list-and-find-a-coworking-space
https://citizen-space.ch/#events

Project Management Software

• What is a Project Management System or Project Management Software? 
• Is there a common understanding on functionality of such system and if it is needed at all? 
• What systems project managers use for projects?

Project Management System should be one to help Project Managers to manage Projects. The word "project" originally meant "before an action" or plan of something. Projects are defined by PMI as Temporary endeavor (having start and end) to create a unique product, service or result. Project managers are to manage timelines, budget and scope. PMI  defines 5 process groups (from start to end) and 10 knowledge areas.

Project Management Software definition in Wikipedia is vague and open to interpretations:

• Project management software has the capacity to help plan, organize, and manage resource tools and develop resource estimates. Depending on the sophistication of the software, it can manage estimation and planning, scheduling, cost control and budget management, resource allocation, collaboration software, communication, decision-making, quality management and documentation or administration systems. 

Definition of Project Management Information System (PMIS) in Wikipedia is also far from being exact: 

• Project management information system can vary from something as simple as a File system containing Microsoft Excel documents, to a full blown enterprise PMIS software.
• A project management system (PMS) could be a part of a PMIS or sometimes an external tool beside project management information system. PMS is basically an aggregation of the processes, tools, techniques, methodologies, resources, and procedures to manage a project. What a PMIS does is to manage all stakeholders in a project such as the project owner, client, contractors, sub-contractors, in-house staff, workers, managers etc

Wikipedia also proved a list of project manager systems, comparing software not by function but by License, Programming language, if this is web based, on-premises or Saas : Comparison of project management software

Searching for definition of Project Management Software (or System) on google, brings a lot of paid advertisements of tools. Many system offer a free 30 days trial or, as Proggio, can even be free for 1 project and limited number of users.

There is a good collection of Project Management Software @ Capterra with a possibility to benchmark systems by platform, features, client rating etc. Comparison of Celoxis, JIRA, LiquidPlanned and Monday is below as example:

https://www.capterra.com/project-management-software/compare/5923-19319-82678-147657/Celoxis-vs-JIRA-vs-LiquidPlanner-vs-monday-com

There is also Capterra's benchmark as follows:
https://www.capterra.com/sem-compare/project-management-software?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1Mugy72a4QIVCs53Ch13_gXuEAAYAiAAEgIdYfD_BwE

Despite there are so many systems and tools, the question about Project Management Software and availability of good systems is still open.

Mnemonic

The word "mnemonic" is derived from the Ancient Greek word μνημονικός (mnēmonikos), meaning "of memory, or relating to memory" and is related to Mnemosyne("remembrance"), the name of the goddess of memory in Greek mythology. Both of these words are derived from μνήμη (mnēmē), "remembrance, memory". Mnemonics in antiquity were most often considered in the context of what is today known as the art of memory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic

• How to become a memory master | Idriz Zogaj 
• Feats of memory anyone can do | Joshua Foer 
• The Memory Palace Technique 
• This Guy Can Teach You How to Memorize Anything
• A. Luria, The Mind of a Mnemonist: A Little Book about a Vast Memory 
• Method of loci (Wikipedia)

The Top 20 Project Management Software

Top Project Management Software from Capterra. 

https://www.capterra.com/project-management-software/

Most Affordable:
https://www.capterra.com/project-management-software/#affordable

Free Cloud Based Project Software: https://www.flowlu.com/
Proggio Project Management Blog: https://www.proggio.com/blog/

Monday Project Management Blog: https://monday.com/blog/

21th June 2019 LSFB Basel

https://deepart.io/

The 12th Edition of the Life Science Forum Basel is due to take place on Friday, 21st June 2019
http://www.lifescienceforumbasel.org


Last years materials:
http://www.lifescienceforumbasel.org/conference.html

11th Life Science Forum Basel (LSFB) is taken place on June 7th. Topic - Artificial Intelligence in Life Science http://www.lifescienceforumbasel.org/2018.html

Title: “From finding new drugs to better physician engagement – AI has a lot to offer to pharma”

Meetup Groups and Events around Zurich

Groups:

https://deepart.io/

Health Care & Marketing @ZHAW
https://www.meetup.com/Healthcare-Marketing-ZHAW/

Swiss Healthcare Startups
https://www.meetup.com/Swiss-Healthcare-Startups/

Project Management Network Zürich
https://www.meetup.com/Project-Management-Network-Zurich/

Project Management Network Basel
https://www.meetup.com/Project-Management-Network-Basel/

Python Co-Learning Group
https://www.meetup.com/opentechschool-zurich/

AWS Cloud Technology Zürich
https://www.meetup.com/AWS-Cloud-Community-Zurich/

Startup & Founders Masterclass

https://www.meetup.com/startup-masterclass/

OWASP Switzerland Chapter<

https://www.meetup.com/OWASPSwitzerland/

Artificial Intelligence Suisse
https://www.meetup.com/Artificial-Intelligence-Suisse/

Power BI User Group Switzerland
https://www.meetup.com/Power-BI-User-Group-Switzerland/

Zurich Blockchain Techonology Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/Zurich-Blockchain-Techonology-Meetup/

Zurich Behavioral Economics Network - ZBEN
https://www.meetup.com/Zurich-Behavioral-Economics-Network/

Zurich Data Scientists & Machine Learners
https://www.meetup.com/Zurich-Data-Scientists/

Context-Driven Software Testing Meetup Zurich
https://www.meetup.com/Context-Driven-Software-Testing-Meetup-Zurich/

Meetups in November 2018:

Hidden inbox rules in MS Exchange... or how to persistently steal your messages  https://www.meetup.com/OWASPSwitzerland/events/256060882/

Grand Opening Coworking Lounge Tessinerplatz
https://www.meetup.com/Coworking-Lounge-Tessinerplatz/events/255736985/

Data Science Discussions and Drinks
https://www.meetup.com/Zurich-Data-Scientists/events/256128285/

Guest Speaker: Robert Sabourin (Professor at McGill & Generally Awesome)
https://www.meetup.com/Context-Driven-Software-Testing-Meetup-Zurich/events/255525671/

Project Manager Networking Lunch
https://www.meetup.com/Project-Management-Network-Basel/events/mgtvdpyxqbjb/

RSS, News feeds and APPs

Blog's Atom/RSS feed:

• Atom 1.0: http://project-owner.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
• RSS 2.0: http://project-owner.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

(More about RSS) 

NewsTab OMPL file to import: NewsTab PM News.opml


PM RSS News: Appyet app to download (for Android) 
* - installation guideline for apps from unknown sources is here

** - Appyet - http://www.appyet.com/

Develop Android app without Coding Using App Inventor |Google Sheet | APP SCRIPT

http://ai2.appinventor.mit.edu/

https://youtu.be/7j8_3uIAQLk
https://www.crazycodersclub.com/

Women in Science: 100 years back -> 1918

July 23, 1918  - Emmy Noether published her famous theorem that every differentiable symmetry of the action of a physical system has a corresponding conservation law. 

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/emmy-noether-theorem-legacy-physics-math

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ6o1cDxV7o


1918  - Lina Stern who is best known for her pioneering work on the blood–brain barrier, was the first woman awarded professional rank at the University of Geneva, being a Professor of chemio-physiology, and researching cellular oxidation.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18421636
https://sanp.ch/resource/jf/journal/file/download/article/sanp/en/sanp.2010.02158/2010_04_035.pdf/

Stern-Gattiker Prize
(https://www.samw.ch/en/Funding/Stern-Gattiker-Prize.html)

In 2018, the SAMS has launched a new prize to recognize women in academic medicine and to motivate early-career female scientists. The prize is named after two women with distinguished medical careers: Lina Stern, who was the first woman to hold a professorship at the Faculty of Medicine in Geneva, and Ruth Gattiker, who was among the first female professors appointed at the Faculty of Medicine in Zurich.



Nadezhda Suslova (11 September 1843 – 20 April 1918) was Russia's first female physician.


Suslova's first  article, Changes in skin sensations under the influence of electrical stimulation, was published in Meditsinskiy Vestnik in 1862. In 1865, after women were officially banned from universities, she moved to Switzerland, partially influenced by the arrest of her siblings and Bokov and her husband for political activities. In Switzerland, she audited medical classes at the University of Zurich for two years, then became an official student when the university was opened to women. She had intended to study obstetrics in Paris for her doctoral research, but instead moved to St. Petersburg. For her dissertation, she researched the muscular reflexes of frogs and their relationship to the function of lymph hearts at Graz Medical University in Sechenov's lab. She graduated in 1867. Suslova was the first Russian woman to be awarded a Doctor of Medicine degree, which was conferred after having to defend her research and education in front of a large audience and the medical school faculty.

https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/2017/Nadeschda-Suslowa.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_science

ScienceMatters, Blockchain & Scientific Publications

Open science platform powered by blockchain, Sciencematters allows scientists to share their observations.

Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sciencematters)

https://www.sciencematters.io/ 

https://twitter.com/SciMts

Current Trends in Clinical Trials

Virtual clinical trials will be standard, says THREAD exec on Novartis project

09-May-2018 By Brittany Farb Gruber

Novartis’ recently launched FocalView app will be used in a new study to remotely collect electronic device reported outcome measurements (eDROs) from 150,000 users.

HTTPS://WWW.OUTSOURCING-PHARMA.COM/ARTICLE/2018/05/09/VIRTUAL-CLINICAL-TRIALS-WILL-BE-STANDARD-SAYS-THREAD-EXEC-ON-NOVARTIS-PROJECT 

Top CROs slow to adopt new tech? Smaller firms better positioned for innovation, says exec

19-Mar-2018 By Melissa Fassbender

More efficient clinical trials may reduce global CRO revenue, potentially slowing adoption of new technology, says Otsuka director – noting that the industry doesn’t often take operational risks, but it must.

HTTPS://WWW.OUTSOURCING-PHARMA.COM/ARTICLE/2018/03/19/TOP-CROS-SLOW-TO-ADOPT-NEW-TECH-SMALLER-FIRMS-BETTER-POSITIONED-FOR-INNOVATION-SAYS-EXEC 

Innovative Technologies for Clinical Trials Showcased at Oracle Industry Connect 2018

https://blogs.oracle.com/health-sciences/innovative-technologies-for-clinical-trials-showcased-at-oracle-industry-connect-2018

Why Amazon Needs AI At The Center Of Its Healthcare Strategy

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2018/05/02/why-amazon-needs-ai-at-the-center-of-its-healthcare-strategy/

AI software that helps doctors diagnose like specialists is approved by FDA

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/11/17224984/artificial-intelligence-idxdr-fda-eye-disease-diabetic-rethinopathy

Google interested in Nokia digital health unit

https://pharmaphorum.com/news/google-interested-in-nokia-digital-health-unit/

iPharma

http://www.pharmatimes.com/magazine/2018/april_2018/ipharma

Photography + Clouds = Citizen Science

Pictures of clouds are very popular on social networks, Instagram, photo-sharing sites. There are 84 Mio posts with hashtag #clouds on Instagram and 168 Mio pictures with hashtag #sky.  

With NASA Globe and Globe Observer app, Sky photography and Citizen Science can be combined. 

Recording sky and clouds observations is technically simple. There is a minor data entry on high, mid and low level clouds required before pictures of clouds can be taken. Altogether up to 6 pictures can be recorded: North, South, West, East, Up and Down. Once observation is done, measurements and pictures shall be checked and submitted to the NASA server. These can be then publicly visible on the NASA GLOBE Visualization System: https://vis.globe.gov/GLOBE/


Training materials to identify cloud types, step-by-step instructions to record measurements are provided via Globe Observer website (1) and the app (2). Program updates, events, webinars are also published @NASAGO Twitter channel (3).

The GLOBE Program's Mission is to promote the teaching and learning of science, enhance environmental literacy and stewardship, and promote scientific discovery (4). The cloud observations help NASA scientists understand clouds from below (the ground) and above (from space) (5).

1. https://observer.globe.gov/
2. https://observer.globe.gov/about/get-the-app
3. https://twitter.com/NASAGO
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLOBE_Program.
5. https://observer.globe.gov/about

Blockchain, DNA Marketspace & events near Zurich

Some genetic companies of interest:

• Bitcoin is a digital money. Genome is a digital you. https://zenome.io/
• The Future of Genomic Data Encryption, https://encrypgen.com/
• The community owned genomic and medical research database, https://www.lunadna.com/

Some technology meetups around Zurich, Zug, Basel:

9 May, Microsoft Data Science Hands-on Lab

(https://www.meetup.com/Data-Platform-Professionals-Swiss-PASS-Chapter/events/248431315/)

Project Manager Networking Lunch in Zurich or Basel
https://pmi-switzerland.ch/index.php/events

Crypto Valley Forum
https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/Crypto-Valley-Forum/

Blockchain4Good
https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/Blockchain4Good-Rocks

Pantalks - tech & non-tech talks @ Colab Zürich
https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/Pantalks-tech-non-tech-talks-Panter-AG-Zurich

Web Zürich April
Montag, 23. April 2018
http://webzueri.ch/

Donnerstag, 26. April 2018
Lerne direkt mit Google und NexMarket, wie effektives Digital Marketing geht.
https://www.nexmarket.ch/

Webilea@BaselArea
https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/webilea/

Cutting through Hype: Problems & Limitations in Data Science
https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/Cutting-Through-Data-Science-Hype/
Zurich

After work drinks: First introduction and disucssions
https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/Compliance-in-crypto-and-blockchain/events/249162837/
Donnerstag, 3. Mai 2018
Zug

Dienstag, 8. Mai 2018
Behavioral Economics
Zurich
https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/Zurich-Behavioral-Economics-Network/events/248679000/


Dienstag, 8. Mai 2018
Python Co-Learning Group
Zurich
https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/opentechschool-zurich/


Mittwoch, 9. Mai 2018
Blockchain on AWS | Hybrid Networking on AWS
https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/AWS-Swiss-User-Group-Zurich/events/249660866/

Kaggle, Machine Learning - free tutorials

Hands-On Data Science Education

https://www.kaggle.com/learn/overview

Kaggle is a platform for predictive modelling and analytics competitions in which statisticians and data miners compete to produce the best models for predicting and describing the datasets uploaded by companies and users. This crowdsourcing approach relies on the fact that there are countless strategies that can be applied to any predictive modelling task and it is impossible to know beforehand which technique or analyst will be most effective. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaggle)


The 7 Steps of Machine Learning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKW8Ndu7Mjw

Learn SQL: https://www.kaggle.com/learn/sql

Free Oracle APEX tutorials: https://www.skillbuilders.com/free-oracle-apex-tutorials/

Oracle APEX platform, free account for testing/development purpose: https://apex.oracle.com/en/ 

Thalidomide disaster: Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey

Frances Kathleen Oldham Kelsey was a Canadian-American pharmacologist and physician. As a reviewer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), she refused to authorize thalidomide for market because she had concerns about the drug's safety.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Oldham_Kelsey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide

The penumbra of thalidomide, the litigation culture and the licensing of pharmaceuticals

The thalidomide disaster, lessons from the past.

Capterra: from PM blog

Agile Vs Waterfall: Showdown For Software Development Domination

https://blog.capterra.com/agile-vs-waterfall/

10 Need-to-Know Project Management Statistics for 2018

https://blog.capterra.com/10-need-to-know-project-management-statistics-for-2018/

Buyer Beware: 7 Common Time Management Software Issues

https://blog.capterra.com/time-management-software-problems/

Project Management Survey: The Value of PMP Certification

https://www.capterra.com/project-management-software/pmp-survey

About half (47.1%) of project managers use or have used project management software to address their projects' obstacles.

Project Management Institute (PMI) Resources

  PMI Main Site

  PMI Youtube Channel

  

   PMI Academic Group

   PMI Educational Foundation

   PMI EF scholarships

   PMI Learning

   PMI Managing Life’s Projects

   PMI Swiss Chapter

   Tower Game

Podcasts, Webinars, Videos

The Syneos Health Podcast
https://www.buzzsprout.com/85116/

• Episode 013: Artificial Intelligence for Authentic Engagement
• https://www.buzzsprout.com/85116/642656-episode-013-artificial-intelligence-for-authentic-engagement

Why Life Science Companies are Moving to the Oracle Safety Cloud: https://go.oracle.com/LP=65985

Deloitte - Dbriefs Webcast - Life Sciences & Health Care
https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/dbriefs-webcasts/series/industries/health-sciences.html

XTalks Webinars: https://xtalks.com/webinars/

IBM Video's and webinars
https://truvenhealth.com/events/webinars
https://www.youtube.com/user/IBMHealthcare/videos
https://www.youtube.com/user/IBMWatsonSolutions/playlists
https://www.youtube.com/user/ibmthinkacademy/videos

Entrepreneur Resources and Tools

How to Become a Young Entrepreneur / helping young people know, go and grow

• http://knowgogrow.com/
• http://knowgogrow.com/free-business-intelligence-tools

Free Website Assessment tools.
BDC Website Assessment:
https://www.bdc.ca/en/articles-tools/entrepreneur-toolkit/business-assessments/pages/free-website-evaluation.aspx

Website Grader:
https://website.grader.com
https://website.grader.com/results/www.project-owner.com

Varvy SEO tool:
https://varvy.com/

10 SEO Tools to Analyze Your Website Like Google Does in 2018
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/seo-analysis-tools

https://syneoshealthcommunications.com
https://www.buzzsprout.com/85116/746402-episode-020-a-syneos-health-short-21st-century-cures

''Unusual" Clinical Trials

Barry Marshall

After failed attempts to infect piglets in 1984, Marshall, after having a baseline endoscopy done, drank a Petri dish containing cultured H. pylori, expecting to develop, perhaps years later, an ulcer. He was surprised when, only three days later, he developed vague nausea and halitosis (due to the achlorhydria, there was no acid to kill bacteria in the stomach, and their waste products manifested as bad breath), noticed only by his mother. On days 5–8, he developed achlorydric (no acid) vomiting. On day eight, he had a repeat endoscopy, which showed massive inflammation (gastritis), and a biopsy from which H. pylori was cultured, showing it had colonised his stomach. On the fourteenth day after ingestion, a third endoscopy was done, and Marshall began to take antibiotics...

In 2005, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Marshall and Robin Warren, his long-time collaborator, "for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Marshall
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/3982345/

Stewart Adams 

Ibuprofen was first made in December 1961.

Four substances that went to clinical trial failed, and the last - ibuprofen - worked; He took the first dose himself and used the drug to treat his own headaches before it was on the market. Animal tests were very encouraging, and tests on humans showed it was about three times stronger than aspirin.
A patent was filed in 1962, and granted in 1962, for phenylalkane derivatives. In 1969 ibuprofen was licensed as a prescription drug in the UK, and in 1974 in the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Adams_(chemist)

Waldemar Haffkine

Anti-cholera vaccine:Haffkine focused his research on developing cholera vaccine and produced an attenuated form of the bacterium. Risking his own life, on July 18, 1892, Haffkine performed the first human test on himself and reported his findings on July 30 to the Biological Society.

Anti-plague vaccine:  In October 1896, an epidemic of bubonic plague struck Mumbai and the government asked Haffkine to help. He embarked upon the development of a vaccine in a makeshift laboratory in a corridor of Grant Medical College. In three months of persistent work (one of his assistants experienced a nervous breakdown, two others quit), a form for human trials was ready and on January 10, 1897 Haffkine tested it on himself. "Haffkine's vaccine used a small amount of the bacteria to produce an immune reaction."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldemar_Haffkine

https://youtu.be/268U0Odzcsg

AI in Clinical Trials and Healthcare

4 Ways IBM Watson's Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Healthcare

https://www-fool-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.fool.com/amp/investing/2018/01/12/4-ways-ibm-watsons-artificial-intelligence-is-chan.aspx

Say Goodbye to Clinical Trials That Don’t Teach

https://www.google.ch/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2018/01/05/clinical-trials-that-dont-teach

How Deep Learning is Changing Healthcare:
https://blog.capterra.com/how-deep-learning-is-changing-healthcare-part-1-diagnosis/
https://blog.capterra.com/how-deep-learning-is-changing-healthcare-part-2-prevention/

Technology and Project Management meetups near Zurich in Feb-Mar 2018

Thursday, February 1, 2018
Next "From PhD to Founder" Meetup on 1st of February 2018
https://www.meetup.com/From-PhD-to-Founder-Meetup-Zurich/events/246904966/

Thursday, February 1, 2018
When Data Warehouse Yoda meets Data Lake Luke - Coping with Analytics
https://www.meetup.com/Integration-with-Oracle-EMEA/events/245184636/

Needs a date and time
Property Testing with Hypothesis
https://www.meetup.com/pyzurich/events/239060039/

Thursday, March 15, 2018
Tech Data Innovation DAY: Machine Learning Event + Apero
https://www.meetup.com/Swiss-AI-Group/events/246646502/

Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Augmented/Mixed/Virtual Reality Geekout
https://www.meetup.com/Microsoft-Azure-Zurich-User-Group/events/245304905/

Wednesday, March 21, 2018
The disruptive potential of blockchain technology for healthcare
https://www.meetup.com/Blockchain-for-Healthcare/events/npnfqnyxfbcc/

Thursday, February 15, 2018
Vorsprung durch Leadership - Case Study zu Culture Change bei Audi
https://www.meetup.com/leaders-in-digital-transformation/events/245940779/

Friday, January 26, 2018
Project Manager Networking Lunch in Zurich (first in 2018!)
https://www.meetup.com/Project-Management-Network-Zurich/events/246900541/

PM Tutorial Quizz 3 is ready

PM Tutorial Quiz 3 is ready and available per link below:
https://goo.gl/forms/NYNEDRDqJt0B9T4A3

Other 2 tests are as follows: http://www.project-owner.com/2017/11/project-management-quiz-basics.html

Top 10 Stories Of 2017: Real World Evidence, The EU’s GDPR, And More

Top 10 Stories Of 2017: Real World Evidence, The EU’s GDPR, And More http://www.clinicalinformaticsnews.com/2017/12/27/top-10-stories-of-2017-real-world-evidence-the-eus-gdpr-and-more.aspx

Immuno-Oncology Drug Development -- Too Much Of A Good Thing?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/arleneweintraub/2017/12/12/immuno-oncology-drug-development-too-much-of-a-good-thing/

Expert Opinion: Top 3 Project Management Trends to look for in 2018
https://www.proprofs.com/c/project/top-3-project-management-trends-2018/

The 5 Biggest Project Management Trends Shaping 2018
https://blog.capterra.com/the-5-biggest-project-management-trends-shaping-2018/

Artificial Intelligence - Tutorials

MIT OpenCourseWare


Below are full-length lecture videos that cover the content in this course. Lecture 20, which focuses on the AI business, is not available.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-034-artificial-intelligence-fall-2010/lecture-videos/

Machine Learning — Andrew Ng, Stanford University 

AI & PM

Four Ways AI & Bots Will Change Project Management
https://www.clarizen.com/ai-bots-project-management/

Lili.ai, Artificial Intelligence reinvents Project Management
http://lili.ai/lili
https://liliai.blog/

AI to Disrupt Project Management
https://project-management.apacciooutlook.com/cxoinsights/artificial-intelligence-is-going-to-disrupt-project-management-nwid-4369.html

3 ways AI will change project management for the better
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/software-teams/3-ways-ai-will-change-project-management-better

I, Project Manager: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace
https://blog.capterra.com/i-project-manager-the-rise-of-artificial-intelligence-in-the-workplace/

Predicts 2017: Artificial Intelligence
https://www.gartner.com/doc/3519744/predicts--artificial-intelligence (Free Registration)

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Clinical Research:
http://www.scopesummit.com/Artifical-Intelligence-Clinical-Research

AI and Project Management: What Will Change for the Better?
https://www.clarizen.com/ai-project-management-will-change-better

Should Project Managers Fear Artificial Intelligence?
https://www.captechconsulting.com/blogs/should-project-managers-fear-artificial-intelligence

AI & Healthcare

AI, machine learning will shatter Moore's Law in rapid-fire pace of innovation
http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/ai-machine-learning-will-shatter-moores-law-rapid-fire-pace-innovation

Deep Learning In The Clinic: Predicting Patient Prognosis
http://www.clinicalinformaticsnews.com/eCliniqua_article.aspx?id=188720
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.06402.pdf

A Knowledge Graph-based Semantic Database for Biomedical Sciences
https://blog.grakn.ai/a-knowledge-graph-based-semantic-database-for-biomedical-sciences-167154319a0a