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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).
Biostatistics Faculty
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Cheng Cheng, PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Methods for analysis of ultra-high dimensional data and massive multiple hypothesis tests
- Modeling and analysis of complex survival outcome
- Applications in biomedicine, especially multi-omics, image analyses, and clinical trials.
- Incorporation of ML/AI in the above areas
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Cheng Cheng, PhD
Biostatistics
MS 768, Room R6035
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Guolian Kang, PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Mathematical/statistical modeling for complex data
- Pre-clinical and clinical trials design and analysis
- Statistical genetics/genomics
- Systems biology/genetical genomics
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Guolian Kang, PhD
Biostatistics
MS 768, Room R6008
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Yimei Li, PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Neuroimaging statistics
- Longitudinal and dependent data analysis
- Survival data analysis
- Clinical trial design
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Yimei Li, PhD
Biostatistics
MS 768, Room R6038
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Cai Li, PhD
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Functional data analysis
- High-dimensional data analysis
- Imaging analysis
- Statistical learning and computing
- Nonparametric statistics
- Bioinformatics
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Cai Li, PhD
Biostatistics
MS 768
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Qian Li, PhD
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Qian Li, PhD
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Statistical and machine learning methods for high-dimensional omics data
- Integrative analysis in multi-omics studies
- Longitudinal and time series models
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Qian Li, PhD
Biostatistics
MS 768, Room S2006
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Kendrick (Qijun) Li, PhD
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Causal inference
- Cancer survivorship
- Decision theory
- Clinical trial
- Infectious disease
- Oncology
- Semiparametric statistics
- Survival analysis
- Meta-analysis
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Kendrick (Qijun) Li, PhD
Biostatistics
MS 768, Room S2041
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Sedigheh Mirzaei, PhD
Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Sedigheh Mirzaei, PhD
Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Developing novel statistical methods for incomplete survival/time-to-event data
- Cancer survivorship-late effect of new therapies
- Computational statistics and M-health
- Clinical trials
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Sedigheh Mirzaei, PhD
Biostatistics
MS 768, Room R6002
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Motomi Mori, PhD, MBA
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Chair, Biostatistics
Endowed Chair in Biostatistics
Motomi Mori, PhD, MBA
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Chair, Biostatistics
Endowed Chair in Biostatistics
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Basic, translational, clinical and population science
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Motomi Mori, PhD, MBA
Biostatistics
MS 768, Room R6030
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Arzu Onar-Thomas, PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Dose finding methodologies as they apply to pediatric oncology
- Efficacy designs in rare diseases
- Clinical trial operations with specific focus on multi-institutional studies
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Arzu Onar-Thomas, PhD
Biostatistics
MS 768, Room R6032
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Haitao Pan, PhD
Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Adjunct Graduate Faculty, Biostatistics, University of Memphis
Adjunct Associate Professor, Florida State University College of Nursing
Haitao Pan, PhD
Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty
Adjunct Graduate Faculty, Biostatistics, University of Memphis
Adjunct Associate Professor, Florida State University College of Nursing
Research Interests
- Bayesian adaptive clinical trials design
- Nonparametric Bayesian modelling
- Digital health
- Longitudinal data analysis
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Haitao Pan, PhD
Biostatistics
MS 768, Room R6032
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Stan Pounds, PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director of Biostatistics Courses, St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Stan Pounds, PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Director of Biostatistics Courses, St. Jude Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Development of statistical methodology to identify biologically and clinically relevant genomic alterations
- Creation of novel methods that integrate multiple pharmacologic and clinical endpoints with multiple forms of genomic data
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Stan Pounds, PhD
Biostatistics
MS 768, Room R6005
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Subodh Selukar, PhD
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Design of clinical trials
- Sequential monitoring of clinical trials
- Survival analysis with long-term survivors
- Composite endpoints in studies of bone marrow transplantation
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Subodh Selukar, PhD
Biostatistics
MS 768, Room S2042
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Deo Kumar Srivastava, PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Deo Kumar Srivastava, PhD
Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Univariate and multivariate robust inference
- Robust regression
- Goodness-of-fit
- Longitudinal analysis
- Clinical trials design
- Survival analysis
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Deo Kumar Srivastava, PhD
Biostatistics
MS 768, Room R6010
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Zachary Wooten, PhD
Instructor, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Enhancing contouring quality assurance in radiation oncology using AI and machine learning
- Developing interpretable AI models for improved clinical decision-making in radiation therapy
- Advancing functional statistical methods for medical research applications
- Applying measurement error models to improve accuracy in clinical data analysis
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Zachary Wooten, PhD
Department of Biostatistics
MS 768
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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Yiwang Zhou, PhD
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Yiwang Zhou, PhD
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
Affiliations
Research Interests
- Precision medicine; individualized treatment rules
- Longitudinal data analysis
- Spatialtemporal data analysis
- Clinical trials; observational studies
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Yiwang Zhou, PhD
Biostatistics
MS 768, Room R6036
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
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