Division of Biomedical Informatics

• Douglas C. Stahl is the Director of the Division of Biomedical Informatics, founded in 1998. Dr. Stahl’s research interests are biomedical instrumentation, microarray analysis, and genomic data mining.
• Yate-Ching Yuan’s research interests are computational biology and molecular modeling.
• Mark Sherman’s research interests are molecular modeling and the prediction of structures or receptors and other proteins of therapeutic interest, particularly antibodies.

Division of Biostatistics

• Joyce Niland’s research interests are clinical trials methodology, outcomes research, and biomedical informatics. She also directs the Data Coordinating Centers for two nationwide research networks: (1) the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Outcomes Research Study, studying patterns of care, guideline concordance, and factors associated with patient outcomes within our nation’s Cancer Centers; and (2) the Islet Cell Resources (ICR) consortium, investigating optimization of islet cell harvesting for transplantation in type I diabetes.
• Jeffrey Longmate’s research interests are study design and statistical inference arising from collaborations in genetics, immunology, and early-phase clinical trials. Dr. Longmate co-directs the coordinating center for multi-center Phase I/II drug development, directs the Data Coordinating Center for the Southern California Islet-Cell Consortium, and coordinates the Biostatistics segment of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics course for the Graduate School and the Medical Fellows Training Program.
• Li Cheng’s research interests include the role of genetic markers and receptors in the etiology and manifestation of disease processes.
• David Smith is interested in pre-clinical study design, clinical trial methodology, and microarray study design and data analysis.
• Paul Frankel’s research interests include clinical trials methodology and survival analysis techniques.
• Rebecca Nelson’s research interests include exploring patterns of disease risk and outcomes as related to clinical and environmental covariates.
• Dajun Qian’s research interests include clinical trial methodology, linkage analysis, and haplotype sharing correlation analysis.

Clinical Research Information Management (CRIM)