About Us Cancer Biostatistics
Cutting edge and accessible expertise
The division of Cancer Biostatistics is part of the department of internal medicine in the College of Medicine at the University of Kentucky, and the academic home of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource (BB SR), at the Markey Cancer Center (MCC). Our faculty and staff have extensive experience and expertise with many statistical software packages to help develop studies, calculate sample sizes with adequate power, and perform data analyses for MCC investigators across all three Research Programs.
We provide centralized, cutting-edge and accessible expertise in biostatistics and bioinformatics to support all phases of cancer studies from study development, implementation, and post-study analyses.
Our Mission
The mission of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource (BB SR) is to apply statistical principles to ensure rigor and enhance the execution of scientific research through a team science model of collaboration with MCC investigators.
Awards and Achievements
- Dr. Heidi Weiss and Dr. Donglin Yan are lead statisticians on the National Cancer Institute's Experimental Therapeutics Clinical Trials Network (NCI/ETCTN) multi-center clinical trials with MCC investigators as Primary Investigators (PIs)
- Dr. Li Chen was promoted to full professor
- Dr. Chi Wang was awarded a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) grant on radiogenomics
- Dr. Bin Huang and Dr. Feitong Lei presented at the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) 2025 Annual Conference
- Dr. Jinpeng Liu gave a poster presentation at the Clinical and Translational Science Association (CTSA) meeting