Anton Zhang
Anton Zhang - Anton Zhang '16 will manage projects using data from MD Anderson's D3CODE With so many questions still surrounding COVID-19, there is one certainty: Pandemic-related research is here to stay. "The research on it will last, and it's going to create a lot of impact,” said the Ken Kennedy Institute 's Anton Zhang '16. And Zhang should know. As the institute's first data scientist, he will manage multiple clinical research projects that use data from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center to search for clues about long-term outcomes and improved treatment methods for COVID-19. The position was created after Kennedy Institute Executive Director Angela Wilkins organized a virtual workshop for Rice faculty to meet representatives of MD Anderson's Data-Driven Determinants for COVID-19 Oncology Discovery ( D3CODE ) effort, which collects and aggregates data into a single resource for COVID-19 research. "We saw lots of conversations happening, but a couple of things I kept hearing from the faculty were, 'It's really hard to just move somebody onto a project,' and, 'It's really hard to work out the data situation across institutions,'” Wilkins said. It was mid-summer and the pandemic was raging.
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