Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

The Biostatistics and Bioinformatics shared resource supports the mission of Wilmot by providing biostatistics and bioinformatics collaboration and support; targeted novel methodological development in collaboration with Wilmot programs and other shared resources; and education, training, and mentoring.

Services include:

• Grant preparation, including analysis of preliminary data; consultation on study design, including endpoint selection; randomization, blocking, stratification, and early stopping rules for safety, futility, and/or efficacy; development and drafting of appropriate statistical analysis plans; and power and sample size computations.
• Manuscript development, including data analysis; compilation of tables and figures for publication; drafting and editing the statistical methods section; interpretation of results; and performing revisions in response to peer review.
• Statistical consulting, including providing statistical advice and recommendations on study design and planning; protocol development; performing data analyses and interpreting results; and preparing tables and figures for abstracts, posters, slides, and papers.
• Clinical research support, including assistance with conception and design of Investigator Initiated Studies (IIS), protocol review, and monitoring of accrual and study progress.
• Education and training on topics such as clinical trial designs, censored survival data, Bayesian model-based cluster analysis, normalization and analysis of genomic data, and high-dimensional data analysis.
• Epigenomics

Support

Biostatistics

To schedule an appointment with Biostatistics, submit a request for support or email Derick_Peterson@urmc.rochester.edu. 

Personnel 

• Derick R. Peterson, PhD, Co-Director and Professor, Biostatistics and Computational Biology
• Tanzy Love, PhD, Associate Professor, Biostatistics and Computational Biology  
• Myla Strawderman, MS, Senior Research Associate, Biostatistics and Computational Biology
• Andrea Baran, MS, Research Associate, Biostatistics and Computational Biology

Bioinformatics

To schedule an appointment with Bioinformatics, submit a request for support or email Matthew_Mccall@urmc.rochester.edu.

Personnel

• Matthew N. McCall, PhD, MHS, Co-Director and Associate Professor, Biostatistics and Computational Biology
• Cameron Baker, MS, analyst/programmer, with expertise in transcriptomics and single-cell genomics
• James Java, PhD, computational biologist, with expertise in high-dimensional cytometry analysis
• Seong-Hwan Jun, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biostatistics and Computational Biology
• Dalia Ghoenim, PhD
• Tyler Stahl

NCI Designation and Acknowledging the CCSG

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has designated the University of Rochester's Wilmot Cancer Institute as the nation’s 73rd cancer center.  Communicating the outcomes of NIH-funded projects and the role of NIH support in biomedical research enhances public understanding of how we, as a research community, are working to improve human health.  To properly acknowledge the Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) in your work which utilized the Shared Resources since March 15th, 2025, please include the following statement in the acknowledgement section of your publication(s):

“The work described in this publication benefited from the support of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource at the Wilmot Cancer Institute, supported in part by the University of Rochester Wilmot Cancer Institute Support Grant #P30CA272302. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health."