PEI MA
(617) · 510 · 7968 peima09@gmail.com
Malden MA, USA 02148
QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY
Technical Skills
· Hands-on experiences in statistical programming for clinical trial data, pre-clinical trial data, real-world
data, and biomarker/genomic data.
· Experiences in people management(direct report and vendors management).
· Over seven years of industry experiences in biopharma, biotechnology, pharmaceutical service com-
panies, and in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) precision medicine company.
· Extensive experiences in clinical data related statistical programming and data analytics.
· Extensive experiences in regulatory submissions of programming and statistical analysis results.
· Comprehensive experiences in real world evidence (RWE) data engineering and data analysis.
· Ten years of experiences using SAS, R and Python tools for data science, data wrangling, data visu-
alization, data analysis and reporting.
· Over five years of experiences in web programming using Python frameworks such as Django, Flask
and R Shiny.
· Extensive experiences in cloud computing such as AWS EC2 ECS, Aurora RDS and big data analytics.
EXPERIENCE
Foundation Medicine, Inc. Cambridge, MA February 2017 — Present
Role: Senior Data manager, Biometrics and Biomarkers, Clinical Platform
· Provide guidance and trainings to team members.
· Managing internal and external data programming activities, which includes lab process data, sample
data, biomarker, genomic data, real-world evidence data(RWE) and clinical trial data.
· Ensure that all datasets, programs, and documentation are archived and ready for regulatory submis-
sion and audit.
· Provide data management and data analysis support to large scale, muti-study FoundationOne CDx
which was approved in end of 2017 as the first FDA-approved broad companion diagnostic (CDx) that
is clinically and analytically validated for solid tumor.
· Provide data management and data analysis support to Foundation Liquid assay research/development
and validation studies.
· Lead in designing and implementing data platform to integrate data from multiple internal and external
data sources
· Build applications and data analytic platform based on real-world clinico-genomic database (CGDB).
The CGDB is a combination of Foundation medicine’s one of the largest consolidated genomic profiling
knowledgebases and Flatiron’s oncology clinical data.
· Using machine learning methods for precision medicine such as classify tissue origin for certain cancer
types.
· Deliver molecular information based on NGS to pharmaceutical partners and academic collaborators,
with an emphasis on accuracy and timeliness
· Involved in journal publication manuscript and conference poster preparation
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Boston July 2015 — February 2017
Role: Senior Specialist Programming (Quantitative Clinical Pharmacology Programmer), Quantitative
Clinical Pharmacology
· Therapeutic Areas Supported: Oncology, Respiratory, Diabetes and Cardiovascular diseases.
· Lead the application of computer science and information technology methods to provide the technical
components that support all aspects of pharmacology clinical development process, including clinical
development plans and scientific utilization data.
· Provide strategic input and leadership to the delivery of all technical programming and information
components of deliverables.
· Plan and program the integration of clinical data databases from multiple studies or sources/vendors.
· Lead NONMEM dataset programming support for complex trial designs such as adaptive trial designs
for important internal decision making (Go/No Go criteria).
· Lead programming support to pharmacometric modeling and simulation for deliverables to regulatory
submissions.
· Oversee the quality of all deliverables, holding partners and providers accountable for the quality of
their deliverable.
· Act as a major contributor to develop an R package to simplify and automate the workflow of creating
standard structured datasets for pharmacometric/disease modeling and simulation.
· Identify opportunities to improve the methodology and provide practical solutions for problems.
· Contribute to the development of best practice to improve quality, efficiency and effectiveness.
PAREXEL International, Boston August 2014 — July 2015
Role: Statistical Programmer
· Perform efficient programming practice to produce and/or QC CDISC or Sponsor-specific datasets and
offline listings for multiple studies.
· Successfully provided statistical programming support as a lead programmer to two phase 3 studies.
· Provided unblinded safety reports to support the Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB/DMC) com-
mittee meetings.
· Responsible for import/export programming specification development, test data creation and test data
entry, import/export programming functional testing, as well as mapping specifications to support rele-
vant data standards.
· Developed statistical programs with various functionality such as SAS listings, SAS summary tables,
data mapping according to sponsor standard or CDISC standards (SDTM/AdAM), data transfering.
· Developed excellent knowledge in clinical trial data standards and workflow working with different
clients and various therapeutic area data such oncology, vaccine and neurology.
· Developed wider knowledge of SAS and other relevant programming languages and processes within
the Biostatistics, and Medical arenas.
DUCK FLATS Pharma, LLC, New York November 2013 August 2014
Role: Statistician/SAS programmer
· Working with Data management and other function groups for data checking and problem solving.
· Providing programming support on Phase I and II studies.
· QC SDTM datasets by following CDISC SDTM Implementation Guideline and review Data Spec.
· Creating Tables, Listings, and Figures output per Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP).
· Performing parallel programming QC for Tables and Listings.
· Assisting study design, Population PK/PD modeling and particular QT (ECG) data analysis.
· Calculating sample size, managing database, comparing end-points for pre-clinical trials studies.
· Reviewed various sections of CTD for clients.
· Developing utility Macros to improve programming efficiency and consistency.
Syracuse University, New York January 2010 — May 2013
Role: Research Analyst
· Design of experiment and developed Statistical Analysis Plan for products characterization and data
analysis.
· Performed statistical modeling using SAS 9.2 and R 2.13.0
· Prepared statistical analysis reports using SAS and documentation for publication submission.
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry August 2013
Syracuse University, Syracuse NY
Master of Science in Applied Statistics May 2013
Syracuse University, Syracuse NY
Bachelor of Science in Pharmaceutical Science July 2007
Tianjin University, Tianjin China
CERTIFICATE
SAS Certified Advanced Programmer for SAS 9 May 2014
SAS Global Certification program, SAS Institute, Cary, NC
SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 March 2014
SAS Global Certification program, SAS Institute, Cary, NC
TECHNICAL STRENGTHS
Data Analysis: Data handling, Exploratory Data Analysis, model building and fitting,
results interpretation
Statistical Skills Sampling methods, data management, statistical modelling, simulation
univariate, bivariate, multivariate regression methods and logistic regression
experiment design and ANOVA, MANOVA, discrimination analysis
classification, factor analysis, principal components analysis, cluster analysis
time series, forecasting, imaging processing, machine learning.
Computer Languages: Python, SQL and HTML.
Operating Systems: Windows, MacOS and Linux (Ubuntu).
Statistical Software: R and SAS
SAS Tools: SAS/BASE SAS, SAS/MACROS, SAS/GRAPH, SAS/REPORTS
SAS/STAT, SAS/SQL, SAS/ODS
SAS Procs: Print, Means, Univariate, Correlation, Regression, SQL, Report, Freq, Sort,
Summary, Format, Import, Export, Transpose, Compare, Anova, Append,
Gplot and Gchart.
Visualization Tool: R shiny, SAS/GRAPH, Google Charts, Python and Adobe Photoshop.
Others: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
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HONORS AND AWARDS
Student Award, Boron In The Americas (BORAM) XIII conference, West Lafayette, IN June 2012
Student Travel Grant, Department of Chemistry, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY July 2011
PUBLICATIONS
1. D A Fabrizio, C Milbury, W-K Yip, L Ramamurthy, X Bai, V Pattani, P Maness, A Cowen, K Fe-
dorchak, P Ma, G M Frampton, C Connelly, Y Li; 56PD Analytic validation of tumor mutational
burden as a companion diagnostic for combination immunotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer,
Annals of Oncology, Volume 29, Issue suppl_8, 1 October 2018, mdy269.054.
2. James X. Sun, Yali Li, Coren Milbury, Joel Skoletsky, Christine Burns, Wai-ki Yip, Jun Luo, Ninad
Dewal, Adrienne Johnson, Kyle Gowen, Jing Tong, Yuting He, Jie He, Pei Ma, Jared White, Steve
Roels, John Truesdell, Eric Peters, Houston Gilbert, Charlie Wu, Erica Schleifman, Johannes
Noe, Carl Barrett, Kenneth Thress, Suzanne Jenkins, Julia Elvin, Geoff Otto, Doron Lipson, Jef-
frey Ross, Vincent Miller, Philip Stephens, Michael Doherty, Christine Vietz. A clinically validated
comprehensive companion diagnostic platform for care of patients with advanced cancer [ab-
stract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018;
2018 Apr 14-18; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(13 Suppl):Abstract
nr 4757.
3. Wai-ki Yip, Joel Skoletsky, Pei Ma, Jun Luo, Coren Milbury, Christine Burns, John Truesdell, Julia
Elvin, Geoff Otto, Doron Lipson, Jeffrey Ross, Vincent Miller, Philip Stephens, Michael Doherty,
Christine Vietz, James X. Sun, Yali Li. An ERBB2 follow-on companion diagnostic for clinical care
of patients with breast cancer [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer
Research Annual Meeting 2018; 2018 Apr 14-18; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer
Res 2018;78(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 1607.
4. James X. Sun, Kevin Lin, Yali Li, Kyle Gowen, Yuting He, Coren Milbury, Christine Burns, Jun
Luo, Steve Roels, Murtaza Mehdi, John Truesdell, Pei Ma, Lakshman Ramamurthy, Christine
Vietz, Jeri Beltman, Thomas Harding, Doron Lipson, Jeffrey Ross, Vincent Miller, Philip Stephens,
Michael Doherty, Julia Elvin. A validated diagnostic assay for identifying ovarian cancer patients
with deleterious BRCA mutations and high genomic loss of heterozygosity (LOH) [abstract]. In:
Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2018; 2018 Apr
14-18; Chicago, IL. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2018;78(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 4544.
5. Pei Ma, Tiffany M. Smith, Jon Zubieta, and James T. Spencer. Synthesis and characterization of
oxonium functionalized rhenium metallaborane. Journal of Chemical Crystallography, 50:14–20,
2020
6. Pei Ma and James T. Spencer. Catalytic activity of a large rhodium metallaborane towards the
[2+2+2] cycloaddition of alkynes. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 482:67 – 69, 2018
7. Pei Ma and James T. Spencer. Cyclodimerization of isocyanates promoted by one large vertex
metallaborane. Polyhedron, 149:148 – 152, 2018
8. Pei Ma, Ralf Littger, and James T. Spencer. Thermal and photochemical pathways of a 10-vertex
rhodium metallaborane. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 477:242 – 247, 2018
9. Pei Ma and James T. Spencer. Photochemistry of metallaborane: A novel method for functional-
ized carborane synthesis. Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 89:78 – 82, 2018
10. Pei Ma, Ralf Littger, Tiffany M. Smith Pellizzeri, Jon Zubieta, and James T. Spencer. Thermal ver-
sus photochemical pathways of a manganese 10-vertex metalladecaborane: [nido-6-mn(co)3b9h13][nme4].
Polyhedron, 109:129 – 137, 2016
11. Pei Ma and James T. Spencer. Non-covalent stabilization and functionalization of boron nitride
nanosheets (bnnss) by organic polymers: formation of complex bnnss-containing structures. Jour-
nal of Materials Science, 50(1):313–323, Jan 2015
12. Pei Ma, Tiffany M. Smith, Jon Zubieta, and James T. Spencer. Synthesis of alkoxy derivatives of
the 10-vertex manganadecaborane [nido-6-mn(co)3b9h13][nme4]. Inorganic Chemistry Commu-
nications, 46:223 – 225, 2014