What are the opportunities for data science in pharma?

Today, I am interviewing Dacheng Liu from Boehringer-Ingelheim and talk about the different opportunities open for data scientists in the pharmaceutical industry and answer the different interesting points below:

• How did you get into data science and what does "data science" mean to you?
• What are typical data science methods that we are not yet using enough?
• Which areas do you think, have currently the biggest potential to benefit from such methods?
• Which case studies do you have in mind?
• Which areas will become important in the future in terms of data science?

References: https://theeffectivestatistician.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/References.docx