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Welcome from the Chair
Andrei Yakovlev, Ph.D.
Welcome to the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the University of Rochester. Located in the School of Medicine and Dentistry, the Department has three primary objectives: methodological research, collaborative research, and education. The Department administers masters, doctoral and postdoctoral programs in statistics and biostatistics.
Methodologic research interests of the Department include survival analysis, semiparametric inference, sequential trial design, order-restricted inference, analysis of spatial data, robust inference, analysis of quantal response data, linear models, measurement theory, mixed models, quality of life data, smoothing techniques, stochastic modeling of complex cell systems, stochastic models of carcinogenesis, cancer screening and cancer treatment, prediction of clinical outcomes, statistical methods in genomics and proteomics.
The Department operates a consulting service staffed by faculty, programmers and graduate students and can provide assistance ranging from advice on design and analysis to complete data management.
In recent years the Department has undergone a major expansion. Eight new tenure track faculty members and two research assistant professors have been recruited to enrich our collaborative effort, and a Computational Biology Group has been formed to develop new statistical tools and study commonly used methods for microarray analysis. The Department enjoys long-standing and new collaborative relationships with the Department of Neurology, the Environmental Health Science Center, the Heart Research Follow-Up Program of the Cardiology Unit of the Department of Medicine, and many other basic science and clinical departments.
If you would like further information about us, please do not hesitate to contact us directly.
Andrei Yakovlev, PhD
Professor and Chair
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