St. Jude Research
Chair: Motomi Mori, PhD

Department of Biostatistics

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About the Department

The mission of the Department of Biostatistics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance prevention, cures, and quality of life for children with catastrophic diseases through  innovative biostatistics and data science research, collaboration, and education. We apply statistical reasoning and principled application of quantitative methods to design scientifically rigorous studies, enabling the transformation of research data into actionable scientific discoveries and knowledge.

The vision of the department is to establish St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital as a global leader in biostatistics and data science in pediatric catastrophic diseases. 

We provide state-of-the-art biostatistical support to all research initiatives at St. Jude by designing and analyzing studies across the spectrum of laboratory research, early and late phase clinical trials, and late-effect and epidemiological studies. The efforts of the department are well supported by over 70 faculty, staff biostatisticians, postdoctoral fellows, computing personnel, and administrative staff.

We provide comprehensive biostatistics collaboration to all of St. Jude sponsored, investigator-initiated studies, from concept and protocol development to study implementation, monitoring, data management, statistical analysis, and manuscript preparation. Additionally, the department also supports multi-institutional consortia such as: the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium (PBTC) Operations, Biostatistics and Data Management Core, the Children's Oncology Group (COG) Brain Tumor Committee, and the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS).

  • Biostatistics Shared Resource

    The Biostatistics Shared Resource provides comprehensive and cutting-edge biostatistical support to researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Find out more.

  • Biostatistics Software

    Methodological innovations and software packages developed by our faculty are widely applicable across areas of study design and data analysis, spanning topics of epidemiology, multi-omics, machine learning, missing data adjustment, and more.

Biostatistics Faculty

Education & training programs

The faculty of the Department of Biostatistics are deeply invested in the education and training for the next generation of data scientists.

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St. Jude investigators have the freedom to focus on making big discoveries, backed by extraordinary resources and support teams. We are always looking for highly motivated scientists and engineers with passion and talent to join us.

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We are currently recruiting postdoctoral research associates, staff biostatisticians, and faculty members!

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Department of Biostatistics
MS 768, Room S2001
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN, 38105-3678 USA
901-595-4986 Tomi.Mori@stjude.org
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN, 38105-3678 USA
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