People
Listed below are some of the members of Statistics who are interested in or actively working on topics in medicine or molecular biology. Also given are some of the areas of interest, although these are necessarily incomplete.
Staff:
Professor Rosemary Bailey - Design of experiments, Clinical and pre-clinical trials, Forensic statistical analyses of controversial medical studies
Dr Carl Donovan - Modelling of recovery times, Analysis of image/video data.
Professor Andy Lynch - Methods for high-throughput genomics technologies, Cancer research (esp. prostate cancer), Statistical Genomics
Dr Nicolo Margaritella - Bayesian statistics with applications to neuroscientific data
Dr Giorgos Minas - Systems biology, Adaptive clinical trial design, Neuroimaging
Dr Michail Papathomas - Methods for Genome-Wide Association Studies, Complex phenotypes/diseases, Statistical genetics
Dr Valentin Popov - Applications of Hidden Markov Models in health psychology
Dr Hannah Worthington - Estimating population sizes. Applying ecological methods to molecular data.
Research students:
Konstantinos Alexiou (Supervisor: Minas) Stochastic modelling of populations of interacting cells with complex underlying phenotypes
Naici Guo (Minas, Lynch) - Collaborating with members of the School of Medicine on oesophageal cancer.
Wei Jing (Papathomas) - Developing Bayesian methods for genetic data.
Katie O'Neill (Lynch, School of Medicine) - Linking small RNA and pathology data in prostate cancer
Victor Velasco Pardo (Lynch, Papathomas) - Developing methods for uncertainty of signatures.
Xioayue Yang (Lynch, Minas)- Methods evaluation and development for prostate gene expression data.
Former members:
We are greatly saddened by the loss of our colleague JJ Valletta (1983-2020)