Jesse Albert Canchola

About Jesse Albert Canchola

Jesse Canchola is a native Californian and has been a statistician for over 25 years. He earned a bachelor\'s degree in statistics from UC Berkeley, a master\'s degree in statistics from UC Davis, and undertook additional coursework at UCLA. He is an accredited Professional Statistician [PStat®].​Jesse started his career as a biostatistician at Alpha Therapeutics Corporation, located in Los Angeles,​before moving to the Bay Area in 1992. He worked as a Statistician to Principal Statistician for 14 years in the Dept. of Medicine (DOM) at UCSF, ​where he was a consulting statistician to DOM departments and ran the intern program at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS). ​Jesse then moved to the molecular diagnostics industry as Senior ​​Biostatistician at Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics in Berkeley, where he worked for about 6 years on the VERSANT HxV quant and HCV DBS quant assays. He then moved to Tethys Bioscience, a small startup in Emeryville, California, where he worked as Product Development Biostatistician for 2 years on the PreDx test.After Tethys, Jesse landed at Roche Molecular Systems in Pleasanton, California, in 2013, where he began as Senior Biostatistician (contract) then as Principal Biostatistician (FTE) and most recently, as Manager, Biostatistics, and as virology lead for both registrational and non-registrational studies​ within MSA/Biometrics.Jesse was also adjunct faculty in the Department of Statistics at the California State University, East Bay in Hayward, California, for 12 years from 1997 to 2008, teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics as well as being the SAS instructor for the Department. Over the years, Jesse has presented, and continues to present his work, at statistics and SAS conferences (including The Joint Statistical Meetings, The SAS Global Forum/SUGI, PharmaSUG and WUSS) and written substantially in peer reviewed journals (with over 40 joint publications and over citations).

Experience

1. Senior Manager, Biostatistics

   Roche

   Jan 2022 — Present · Pleasanton, CA, US

   Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. Oversee, plan, and provide high-level statistical support to multi-disciplinary project teams. Assign statistical support to project teams. Supervise statistical and programming work done by contractors. Provide training and supervise the development of biostatisticians. Provide statistical support (trial design, study conduct, and analysis) to multi-disciplinary project teams. Review or write the statistical methodology section of protocols and study reports as needed. Supervise the quality-control checking and validation of deliverables (reports, summary tables, and graphs) across projects. Oversee and conduct statistical exploratory analysis as requested. Communicate with project team members and clients in other departments. Set short- and long-term goals and focus on deliverables, ensuring alignment with the organization\'s goals and objectives.

Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Statistics

  1983 — 1987

• UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

  Biostatistics

  1990 — 1991

• University of California, Davis

  MS, Statistics

  1988 — 1990

Skills

• Analysis
• Statistical Modeling
• Time Series Analysis
• Survival Analysis
• Spss
• CRO
• Infectious Diseases
• Research
• Oncology
• Protocol
• Training
• Lifesciences
• Epidemiology
• Molecular Biology
• Sas Programming
• Clinical Development
• Assay Development
• Statistical Computing
• Biotechnology
• Clinical Trials
• Statistical Programming
• Research and Development (R&D)
• Validation
• Genomics
• R&D
• Management
• Medical Devices
• Clinical Research
• Sas
• CRO Management
• U.s. Food and Drug Administration (Fda)
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• Fda
• Microsoft Excel
• Clinical Data Management
• Stata
• Statistics
• Leadership
• Biostatistics
• Logistic Regression