About Us - Committees - Executive

Marie Davidian, PhD - Bio and Pubs
North Carolina State University
Principal Investigator, Core A Co-Director, Core B Co-Director, Project 4 Co-Leader

Dr. Davidian is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Statistics and Coordinator for the Chancellor's Faculty Excellence Program's Personalized Medicine Discovery Faculty Cluster at North Carolina State University, and is Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke. Her methodological research expertise is in development of techniques for analysis of data from clinical trials and observational studies in chronic disease, for discovery of optimal dynamic treatment regimes and causal inference, for handling of missing and mismeasured data, and for analysis of longitudinal data. Through her adjunct position, she collaborates with researchers at Duke Clinical Research Institute on challenges in cardiovascular disease and cancer research, and during her time at Harvard School of Public Health, she was senior statistician on numerous clinical studies of HIV infection for the AIDS Clinical Trials Group. Dr. Davidian is currently a co-investigator in the Biostatistics Service of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was 2013 President and is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. In addition, she is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. She has been Executive Editor of Biometrics since 2006 and was that journal's Coordinating Editor in 2000-20002..

Michael R Kosorok, PhD - Bio and Pubs
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Principal Investigator (Contact), Core A Director, Project 4 Co-Leader

Dr. Kosorok is W. R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor and Chair of Biostatistics, Member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Kosorok is also Director of the Biostatistics Service of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute. His expertise is in biostatistical methods for clinical trails and data mining and machine learning tools for high dimensional biomedical data, with a focus on cancer applications. He is also an expert in the theoretical properties underlying biostatistical methods, especially in the areas of empirical processes and semiparametric inference, and is author of a book on this topic. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and is an Associate Editor for the Annals of Statistics, the Journal of the American Statistical Association Theory and Methods Section, and the International Journal of Biostatistics.

Kouros Owzar, PhD - Bio and Pubs
Duke University School of Medicine
Principal Investigator, Core A Co-Director, Core B Co-Director, Project 3 Co-Leader

Dr. Owzar is Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University School of Medicine, Director of Bioinformatics at the Duke Cancer Institute, and Director of Biostatistics for the Radiation Countermeasures Center of Research Excellence at Duke. His research is focused on the development of statistical methods and computational tools for investigating the role of heritability on cancer drug induced adverse events. Dr. Owzar is a member of the Duke Cancer Institute Executive Committee, lead statistician of the Alliance Pharmacogenomics and Population Pharmacology committee, and a co-investigator of the Global Alliance for Pharmacogenomics, a joint research program between the National Institutes of Health and the Center for Genomic Medicine in Japan at the RIKEN Institute.