Breaking News

We are delighted to announce that Professor Robert Strawderman from Cornell University will join the department as Chair effective July 1, 2012. For further information see the URMC newsroom article.

 

Welcome

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. Following a major expansion directed by our late chair, Dr. Andrei Yakovlev, 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.

 

David Oakes, PhD
Interim Chair