Always an emotion to return to my alma mater! As part of Prof. Laura Ventura’s Medical Statistics course at the Department of Statistics @ University of Padova, I had the chance to reflect with students about applications of biostatistics. The lecture Servants of all sciences? The role of statisticians in the scientific progress - applications in biomedicine, developed in honour of Jerzy Neyman, was meant to stimulate a reflection on the role of statisticians, between applications, theory, support and leadership, through my personal experience in statistical genetics.
