
Department of Biostatistics
Chair
James Boyett, PhD
Departmental Focus
The mission of the Department of Biostatistics is to promote clinical, translational and laboratory investigations through the further development and creative application of statistical science including interfaces with biology, medicine and information technology.
Well-designed and well-executed studies provide the best opportunity for the advancement of clinical, translational and laboratory research. Our highest priority is the design of investigational clinical protocols and experiments that meet these criteria. To ensure that investigators have access to uniformly high-quality, innovative statistical science for clinical trials design, we use an internal peer review system. This process, which is sanctioned by the institution’s senior leadership, requires that all clinical protocols designed at St. Jude be reviewed and approved by the Protocol Review Committee (PRC) of the Department of Biostatistics. In addition to clinical and translational investigations, we are actively involved in the design and analyses of laboratory-based experiments, including genetics and genomic studies. We are the Operations and Biostatistics Center (OBC) for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC).
Contact Us
Department of Biostatistics
MS 768, Room R6030
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
Email: james.boyett@stjude.org
Phone: (901) 595-4986
FAX: (901) 544-8843
Preferred contact method: email
Faculty
James M. Boyett, PhD Statistical design and analysis of clinical trials
Cheng Cheng, PhD Statistical methods in cancer genomics and genetics
Guolian Kang, PhD Statistical genetics/genomics, statistical modeling of complex data
Shaoyu Li, PhD Statistical genetics and genomics, statistical applications in biological sciences
Yimei Li, PhD Statistical analysis of complex imaging data
Arzu Onar-Thomas, PhD Phase I-II designs, survival analysis, Bayesian statistics
Stan Pounds, PhD Develop statistical methods for genomics studies
Deo Kumar Srivastava, PhD Clinical trials, robust methods, survival analysis
Li Tang, PhD Measurement error & classification; longitudinal modeling; complex epidemiologic study design
Jianrong (John) Wu, PhD Design and analysis of preclinical and clinical trials
Ying Yuan, PhD Statistical analysis of imaging/imaging genetic data
Hui Zhang, PhD Longitudinal missing discrete data and computational neuroscience
Liang Zhu, PhD Survival analysis and longitudinal data analysis
Staff
Departmental Staff