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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 impact the advancement of cures and prevention of pediatric catastrophic diseases through biostatistics and data science collaboration and research. Our vision is to become a global leader in biostatistics and data science in catastrophic pediatric diseases and to accelerate discoveries, treatments and quality of care among survivors.

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.

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).

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Biostatistics Shared Resource

The department houses the Biostatistics Shared Resource (BSR), an institutional core resource to provide biostatistics collaboration and consulting services, such as study design, data management and statistical analysis.

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Faculty and focus areas

  1. Cheng Cheng, PhD

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    Member
    Biostatistics
    Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Research focus area: Using multi-omics integrative analysis to study the underlying biology and treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia

    Primary collaborations: Hematological Malignancies

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  2. Guolian Kang, PhD

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    Member
    Biostatistics

    Research focus area: Statistical genetics/genomics, statistical modeling of complex data

    Primary collaborations: Non-malignant Hematology

    Guolian Kang Bio
    Kang Group Lab

  3. Cai Li, PhD

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    Assistant Member
    Biostatistics

    Cai Li Bio

  4. Kendrick Li, PhD

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    Assistant Member
    Biostatistics

    Research focus area: Cancer survivorship, infectious disease, oncology, survival analysis

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  5. Qian Li, PhD

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    Assistant Member
    Biostatistics

    Research focus area: Developing methods to analyze and model high-dimensional multi-omics data, including longitudinal omics data, to support clinical research

    Primary collaborations: Neuro-Oncology

    Qian Li Bio
    Qian Li Group Lab

  6. Yimei Li, PhD

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    Member
    Biostatistics

    Research focus area: Statistical analysis of complex imaging data

    Primary collaborations: Radiology, Radiation Oncology

    Yimei Li Bio
    Yimei Li Group Lab

  7. Sedigheh Mirzaei, PhD

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    Associate Member
    Biostastistics

    Research focus area: Developing novel statistical methods to analyze longitudinal and time-to-event data in survivorship studies and analyzing childhood cancer survivor data

    Primary collaborations: Epidemiology and Cancer Control

    Sedigheh Mirzaei Bio
    Mirzaei Group Lab

  8. Motomi Mori, PhD, MBA

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    Member
    Chair, Biostatistics
    Endowed Chair in Biostatistics
    Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Research focus area: Design of precision medicine trials, preclinical and translational study designs, biomarker discovery and validation

    Primary collaboration: Basic Sciences

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  9. Arzu Onar-Thomas, PhD

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    Member
    Biostatistics
    Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Research focus area: Phase I-II designs, survival analysis, Bayesian statistics

    Primary collaborations: Neuro-Oncology

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  10. Haitao Pan, PhD

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    Assistant Member
    Biostatistics

    Research focus area: Developing and applying novel statistical design methods and computational tools to support clinical trials and research efforts

    Primary collaborations: Solid Tumor

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    Pan Group Lab

  11. Stan Pounds, PhD

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    Member
    Biostatistics
    Director of Biostatistics Courses, St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
    Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Research focus areas: Statistical methods for genomic studies

    Primary collaborations: Hematological Malignancies, Genetics

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    Pounds Group Lab

  12. Subodh Selukar, PhD

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    Instructor
    Biostatistics

    Research focus: Design of clinical trials, sequential monitoring of clinical trials,  survival analysis with long-term survivors

    Primary collaborations: Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

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  13. Deo Kumar Srivastava, PhD

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    Member
    Biostatistics
    Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Research focus area: Clinical trials, robust methods, survival analysis, goodness-of-fit tests

    Primary collaborations: Epidemiology and Cancer Control

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    Srivastava Group Lab

  14. Zachary Wooten, PhD

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    Instructor
    Biostatistics

    Research focus area: Developing machine learning, Bayesian methods, and interpretable AI models to enhance clinical decision-making for behavioral interventions and contouring quality assurance in radiation oncology

    Primary collaborations: Psychology and Behavioral Sciences

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  15. Yiwang Zhou, PhD

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    Assistant Member
    Biostatistics

    Research focus area: Methodological development of machine learning for individualized treatment rules in precision medicine

    Yiwang Zhou Bio
    Zhou Group Lab

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Contact us

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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