Asif Jan

Group Director, Personalized Healthcare (PHC) Data Science, Neuroscience Analytics at Roche

Dr Asif Jan is Group Director of Analytics in Personalized Healthcare (PHC) Data Science at Roche. Asif Jan leads a multidisciplinary team of scientists specializing in computer science, neuroscience, and statistics. The team implements a variety of statistical and machine learning methods on real-world datasets (e.g. electronic medical records, health insurance claims, disease registries) to fulfill evidence and data analysis needs of the Neuroscience disease area at Roche. Previously, he was Head of Data Science at Roche Diagnostics leading a team of quantitative scientists supporting in vitro diagnostics and clinical decision support product development, where he defined data strategy enabling the use of real-world data.

Earlier he has had a number of roles overseeing technology strategy development, enterprise and solution architecture, and program management at Roche and in other research organizations. Asif has vast experience of building and leading data science teams in pharma and diagnostics companies, and industrial research institutes, tackling complex scientific and business problems. He strongly believes that the intersection of strategy, technology and data science is needed to fight diseases, thereby enabling better care for everyone.

Asif holds a PhD in Neuroscience (informatics) from the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and an MPhil in Computer Science from the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.