Rebecca Ray

Rebecca Ray, PhD, MAS has worked in various roles and companies over the years. Their most recent position is as a Principal Biostatistician at Arcus Biosciences, a role they started in August 2020. Prior to that, they worked as a Biostatistician at Alkahest, Inc. from January 2019 to August 2020, where they analyzed data from animal models of aging diseases and Phase II proteomic studies in Wet AMD and Alzheimer's Disease. Rebecca also supported manuscripts, proposals, financing presentations, and FDA reports.

Before joining Alkahest, Inc., Rebecca worked as a Biostatistician at Kite Pharma from November 2018 to January 2019. In this role, they analyzed Phase I and II clinical data in R and SAS, comparing responders versus non-responders to treatment and preparing tables and graphs for review by clinical scientists.

Rebecca also has experience at Genentech, where they held multiple roles. As a Clinical Imaging Scientist from May 2018 to November 2018, they analyzed longitudinal changes in cortical volume in AD patients versus controls and curated images for a database for machine learning approaches to tumor detection. Rebecca also worked as a Data Scientist from December 2016 to November 2018, using R and Python to create enrollment simulations for clinical trials and analyzing MRI and PET data to quantify relationships between cortical atrophy and biomarker uptake. Rebecca also combined epidemiology data and real-world claims data to create visualizations for clinical trials site selection.

Before joining Genentech, Rebecca worked as a Research Associate at the University of Wisconsin Medical School from March 2014 to May 2016. Their primary responsibility was to analyze data produced by surgical simulation experiments and assist with publication. Rebecca also taught experimental design and statistics to lab undergraduates, medical students, medical residents, and engineers.

Rebecca's work experience also includes being a Post Doctoral Researcher at the Medical College of Wisconsin from September 2011 to December 2013. In this role, they performed neuroimaging experiments and compared motor neural networks of individuals with brachial plexus reconstruction to controls, with a focus on understanding the brain's representation of the motor system and rehabilitation after peripheral nerve damage.

Rebecca also served as a Post Doctoral Researcher at Vanderbilt University from June 2007 to May 2010, where they designed executive function and emotion tasks, tested patients with orbitofrontal damage, and conducted analyses on differences between patients and controls, resulting in a published paper on the relationship between the orbitofrontal cortex and the dorsolateral cortex.

Rebecca's work experience also includes a brief stint as a Post Doctoral Researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Rebecca Ray, PhD, MAS has a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Philosophy and Sociology from Gonzaga University, which they obtained from 1985 to 1990. From 2000 to 2007, they earned their Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Psychology/Neuroscience from Stanford University. Rebecca then pursued a Masters of Applied Statistics (MAS) in Biostatistics from Penn State University, which they completed from 2014 to 2016. In 2013, they briefly attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison for Mathematics and Statistics.