Mr Libin Antony (He/Him)

Libin Antony is a Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Exeter Medical School working on research programmes funded by the Wellcome Trust, NIHR, and other leading bodies. His portfolio spans population-based cohort studies focused on early cancer detection and primary care diagnostics. He is supervised by Dr Tanimola Martins. He has expertise in data management, statistical modelling, and machine learning, and apply these methods to produce robust, clinically meaningful evidence.

As a research assistant, he works across groups within the Medical School and is jointly shared between Dr Tanimola Martins in Prostate Cancer Diagnostics and Dr Gary Abel in the SPOCCIE Primary Care programme. His current research interests include understanding ethnic differences in PSA values and prostate cancer diagnosis in the UK and contributing to Spotting Cancer without Comorbidities (SPOCCIE). He has prior experience using the SAIL Databank for research and are currently working with the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), the largest database of electronic primary care records worldwide, for both projects.

Research Skills

•   Large-scale EHR data
•   Diagnostic accuracy and risk stratification
•   Regression and time-to-event modelling
•   Machine learning for clinical prediction
•   Systematic reviews and meta-analysis
•   R programming and reproducible research
•   Governance and data quality
•   Prostate cancer and PSA (ethnic differences)

Qualifications:

• M.sc Health Data Science - Swansea University, UK
• M.sc Mathematics - Mahatma Gandhi University, India
• Bachelor of Education Mathematics - Mahatma Gandhi University, India