Wei Xu
Associate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Toronto
Dr. Wei Xu
is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Dalla Lana School of Public
Health, University of Toronto. He leads the Biostatistics Department at the
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Dr. Xu’s research interests focus on cancer
big data, statistical methodology, clinical trial design and analysis,
statistical genetics, biomarker research, predictive model construction, and
personalized medicine development. As a Principal-Investigator or a Co-PI, he
has been awarded more than 30 grants on cancer clinical and translational
research studies. He has published over 290 peer-reviewed papers in high impact
journals on statistics, bioinformatics, medical science, and human genetics.
His H-index is 55 with more than 13,500 citations. Dr. Xu is also a Co-Director
of the COMBIEL training program at Ontario Cancer Institute.
Title: Dig data in cancer clinical and genomic
research