The BCC Biostatistics Core is a shared resource providing statistical expertise and collaboration to BCC investigators on all phases of basic science, translational, clinical, epidemiological, and prevention research. The mission of the Biostatistics Core is to ensure rigorous and efficient planning, conduct, and reporting of research using best practices in biostatistics and population sciences, and to advance research methodologies.

The BCC Biostatistics Core includes faculty, staff, and graduate students with various biostatistics expertise. In addition to basic biostatistics services, we will apply advanced statistical methods in clinical trial designs, develop diagnostic and predictive models using different types of data (e.g., cytometry data, omics data, and clinical data), evaluate causal effect and personalized treatment based on randomized controlled trials and real-world data, collaborate to generate new knowledge relating to the nature of cancer, and collaborate to create new and more effective approaches to prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

Dr. Maiying Kong, an elected member of International Statistics Institute, along with her staff and students provide biostatistics support to multiple center grants at our institution. This includes the BCC Biostatistics Core, the Center for Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy COBRE (Drs. Yan and Chesney), and the Biostatistics and Informative Facility Core for CIEHS (Dr. States). Dr. Kong has years of experience in biostatistics including clinical trials, causal inferences to compare effectiveness of different treatments and procedures, personalized medication, longitudinal data analysis, mixed effect models, generalized linear models, smoothing splines, high dimensional data analyses, modeling count data, machine learning methods, and pre-clinical studies. Dr. Kong has mentored 10 PhD students in Biostatistics, and she is currently supervising 5 PhD students.

Who We are: 

Maiying Kong, PhD
Director, Brown Cancer Center Biostatistics Core, School of Medicine
Wendell Cherry Chair in Clinical Trial Research, University of Louisville
Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, SPHIS, University of Louisville

Triparna Poddar: PhD Candidate in Biostatistics
Mst Sharmin Akter Sumy: PhD Candidate in Biostatistics
Stanley Kotey:  PhD Candidate in Biostatistics
Carly Middleton: PhD Student in Bioinformatics
Aye Aye Maung: PhD student in Biostatistics 

Contact Information:

Maiying Kong:  maiying.kong@louisville.edu
Phone: 502-852-3731/502-852-3988 

Hiring Information:

We are hiring MS/PHD biostatisticians. Please visit https://louisville.edu/hr/employment/jobs, or contact Dr. Maiying Kong (email: maiying.kong@louisville.edu) if you are interested.