Dr Olivier Collignon works as biostatistician at the Luxembourg Institute of Health since 2011 and holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics since 2009.

He is currently seconded at the European Medicines Agency in London since 2014, where he participates to the scientific evaluation of the design and results of clinical trials to obtain marketing authorization of new drugs in Europe. He is especially interested in adaptive designs, basket trials and historical controls and their applications to oncology.

Dr Collignon has also been involved in the National Cancer Registry of Luxembourg with which he has led collaborations with the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon.

His expertise also consists in developing variable selection methods to detect promising biomarkers and build efficient clinical prediction models.