Rui (Sammi) Tang
Council Member
Dr. Rui (Sammi) Tang is an innovative, results-oriented
pharmaceutical leader with an established track record of
building, launching and supporting high performing teams,
collaborating across organization lines and developing
innovative trials design options and quantitative solutions
that capitalize on opportunities to produce optimal,
cost-effective results. She is currently the VP, Global Head
of Biometrics at Servier Pharmaceuticals.
Prior to join Servier she was the Biostatistics Therapeutic Area Head
for multiple teams at Shire Pharmaceuticals including oncology,
Transplants, Ophthalmology and prematurity neonates and has worked at
several other organizations, including Vertex, Amgen, Mayo Clinical
and Merck. At Amgen, she served as the biostatistics lead of Companion
Diagnostics and the Global Statistics Lead for multiple oncology
clinical programs from early phase to late phase. Sammi has great
experience in CDRH, CBER, CDER, health Canada, EMA and Asian
regulatory agencies interactions. Sammi’s research interests are
primarily in the area of adaptive clinical trial design and biomarker
subgroup related statistical issues in precision medicine. She has
authored more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals on
methodology, study design, data analysis and reporting and is a
co-inventor of several patents. Besides her daily work, she actively
promotes data science through many of her volunteer activities: Sammi
is co-founder of DahShu which is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization,
founded to promote research and education in data sciences with almost
5000 members internationally. She is leading teams in the Innovative
design scientific working group (IDSWG) of oncology drug development
and small population working group for rare disease statistical
methodology development. She is also an active member in ASA(American
Statistics Association) and ICSA(International Chinese Statistics
Association) to serve the biostatistics and data science professional
community.
Sammi graduated from the University of Michigan Technology University
with a PhD in statistics Genetics.
