Yu Shyr, Ph.D.
Harold L. Moses Chair in Cancer Research
Chairman, Department of Biostatistics
Director, Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences
Director, Vanderbilt Technologies for Advanced Genomics Analysis and Research Design (VANGARD)
Professor of Biostatistics, Biomedical Informatics, and Health Policy
Yu Shyr’s primary research interests are in developing statistical & bioinformatic methodology, specifically in experimental design for next-generation sequencing data, adaptive clinical trials, and nonparametric smoothing methods for longitudinal binary data, as well as in collaborative research in the fields of cancer biology, cancer epidemiology, and clinical trials.