Jesse Albert Canchola

Biostatistician in Hayward, California

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Jesse Canchola is a native Californian, his parents having emigrated from Mexico in the 1950's and 1960's and has been a statistician for over 25 years. Jesse is a statistician by training from UC Berkeley, UC Davis and UCLA.

He started his career as a bio/statistician at Alpha Therapeutics Corporation, located in Los Angeles, before moving to the Bay Area in 1992.

He worked as a statistician for 14 years in the Dept. of Medicine at UCSF where he was a consulting statistician to DOM departments and ran the intern program at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS), mentoring and supervising up to 10 interns, before moving to the molecular diagnostics industry at Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics in Berkeley for about 6 years where he worked on the VERSANT HCV and HIV-1 quantitative assays.

He then moved on to Tethys Bioscience, a small startup in Emeryville, California for two years working on the PreDx test - a preventive test that used 7 assay results in one algorithm for assessing your five year risk for conversion to Type II Diabetes mellitus.

After the company went under, Jesse landed at Roche Molecular Systems (now Roche Diagnostic Solutions) in Pleasanton, California.

Jesse was also adjunct faculty in the Department of Statistics at the California State University, East Bay in Hayward, California for 12 years from 1997 to 2008, teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics as well as being the SAS instructor for the Department.

In his spare time you will find Jesse volunteering for the Alameda County Community Food Bank, as an unpaid Board member (currently President, Board of Directors) for the Latin America Community Assistance Foundation (MyLACA.Org) which serves and empowers the rural poor of Latin America, and the All Saints Parish of Hayward in various past roles as School Technology Committee President and School and past Church websites webmaster, videographer and photographer. Jesse also donates or provides low-cost services of his statistical expertise to non-profits that cannot afford a statistician.

Primary Affiliation: Roche Diagnostic Solutions - Pleasanton, CA , United States

Specialties:

Biotechnology

Epidemiology

Other

Public Health

Statistics

Additional Specialties:

linear models

SAS

R

Research Interests:

Assay Verification and Validation Studies

  • Work
    • Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
  • Education
    • University of California, Berkeley
    • University of California, Davis
    • University of California, Los Angeles