Biostatistician
University of California, San Francisco
Isabel Elaine Allen is Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at UCSF, Mentor in Quantitative Biosciences and the Catalyst program at UCSF, and a consultant for CTSI at UCSF where she was Consultant of the Year for 2015-2016. Dr. Allen is also Emeritus Professor of Statistics and Entrepreneurship at Babson College. She founded and led several biotechnology companies, serves on the board and advises several non-profit organizations and analytic & biotechnology companies, and is also an angel investor. She is Co-Director of the Babson Survey Research Group and has received multiple research grants to design and conduct surveys on online education and entrepreneurship worldwide. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She has published widely on statistical issues in meta-analysis, analytics, survey research, data visualization, proof of concept and clinical research methodology. She serves on several NIH panels on best practices in statistics and evidence-based research and consults for several biotechnology/pharmaceutical companies. She received her PhD from Cornell University.