Sining Chen, Ph.D.

Dr. Chen earned a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1997 and a Ph.D. in Statistics and Decision Sciences from Duke University in 2003. Dr. Chen was a postdoctoral fellow in the Biostatistics Division of the Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine from 2002 to 2005. She is currently an assistant professor at the Department Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, with a joint appointment in the Department of Biostatistics.

Current research interests

1. Risk prediction in hereditary cancer syndromes via Mendelian models, e.g.

· hereditary breast and ovarian cancer: BRCA1, BRCA2;

· Lynch Syndrome or HNPCC (hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer): MLH1, MSH2, MSH6;

2. Statistical analysis of neuroimages;

3. Meta-Analyses; Proteomics; Computational molecular biology;

4. Bayesian computation and methodology.

Teaching

• Bayesian Methods (3^rd term 2006-2007)
• Analysis of Biological Sequences course 2004, 2005, 2006 (entry in the course catalog) in the MPH degree program of Bioinformatics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Curriculum Vitae in pdf

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