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Yuan Liu, PhD, MS

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Biography

Yuan Liu, PhD, is a research associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Rollins School of Public Health. Dr. Liu is a member of the Biostatistics Shared Resource at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.

Dr. Liu has extensive collaborative experience with Winship investigators in the areas of breast cancer, lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, head and neck cancer, hematology and radiation oncology. Her expertise includes study design, data management and analysis for retrospective studies, prognostic biomarker validation, survival/recurrence data analysis and propensity score approach.

Education

Dr. Liu received her PhD in Biostatistics from the University of South Carolina. She also has a MS in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington and a BS from the National HuaQiao University in China.

Titles & Roles

  • Research Associate Professor, Biostatistics Shared Resource
    Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
  • Research Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
    Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University

Research

Dr. Liu's research areas include cancer prognostic biomarker development and validation, retrospective study design, propensity score methodology development, time-dependent biomarkers, analysis of survival and recurrent data, analysis of repeated measurement data, quantile regression and its application in cancer research, and adaptive cancer phase I clinical trial design.

Publications