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This is the home page of the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, located in School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester. Welcome! Our department has a long record of excellence in methodologic and collaborative research and in the education of professionals in and users of statistics. In recent years the Department has undergone a major expansion. We now have 21 tenure-track faculty lines in areas including stochastic modeling, bioinformatics and computational biology as well as traditional biostatistics.
Methodologic interests of the faculty include survival analysis, nonparametric and semiparametric inference, sequential trial design, order-restricted inference, linear models, longitudinal data analysis, smoothing techniques, stochastic modeling of complex cell systems, analysis of micro-array data, Bayesian analysis, measurement error models, and ROC curve analysis.
The Department offers masters and doctoral degrees and has an active postdoctoral program supported by research and training grants. We have strong collaborative relationships with Community and Preventive Medicine, Neurology, Environmental Medicine, Cardiology, the Cancer Center, Biomedical Genetics, Psychiatry, Orthopedics, and many other departments, centers and units throughout the School. We are a major contributor to the Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute of the University of Rochester.
The Department operates a consulting service staffed by faculty, research associates and assistants, programmers and graduate students that can provide assistance on topics ranging from advice on study design and analysis to complete data management.
The aforementioned major expansion of the Department was led by my predecessor, Dr. Andrei Yakovlev, who died suddenly in February 2008. We enter this new phase of our history deeply appreciative of his contribution and inspired by his leadership. The University is now conducting a national search for his successor. Further information about the search may be obtained from Dr. Robert Holloway, Chair, Biostatistics and Computational Biology Search Committee (Robert_Holloway@urmc.rochester.edu).
David Oakes, PhD
Interim Chair
"Statistical Modeling for Biological Systems"
A Conference in Memory of Andrei Yakovlev
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Division of Biomedical Modeling and Informatics
