Yang Xie, Ph.D.

Professor

Endowed Title: Raymond D. and Patsy R. Nasher Distinguished Chair in Cancer Research, in Honor of Eugene P. Frenkel, M.D.
School: School of Public Health
Department: Public Health | Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics | Medical School Dean's Office
Graduate Programs: Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biophysics

Biography

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Education

Undergraduate: Peking Univ Hlth Science Ctr (1997), Medicine
Graduate School: Peking Union Medical College (2000), Epidemiology
Graduate School: Uni of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2002), Biostatistics
Graduate School: Uni of Minnesota-Twin Cities (2006), Biostatistics

Research Interest

Bayesian Methodology
Bioinformatics
Cancer Epidemiology
Clinical Trails

Publications

Featured Publications

Robust Gene Expression Signature from Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Samples Predicts Prognosis of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Patients.: Xie Y, Xiao G, Coombes K, Behrens C, Solis LM, Raso MG, Girard L, Erickson HS, Roth JA, Heymach JV, Moran C, Danenberg KD, Minna JD, Wistuba II Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research 2011 Jul 5705-14
Image-Based Genome-Wide siRNA Screen Identifies Host Factors Involved in Selective Autophagy. Nature, advance online publication, 2011: Orvedahl A, Sumpter R, Xiao G, Ng A, Zou Z, Tang Y, Narimatsu M, Gilpin C, Sun Q, Roth M, Forst C, Wrana J, Zhang Y, Luby-Phelps K, Xavier R, Xie Y, Levine B. Nature 2011 7375 480 113-117
Non-small-cell lung cancer mRNA expression signature predicting response to adjuvant chemotherapy.: Xie Y, Minna JD J. Clin. Oncol. 2010 Oct 28 29 4404-7
Measures of Bayesian learning and identifiability in hierarchical models: Xie Y, Carlin BP Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference October 2006 136 3458-3477
Analysis of Pleiotropic Transcriptional Profiles: a Case Study of DNA Gyrase Inhibition: Jeong KS, Xie Y, Hiasa H and Khodursky AB PLoS Genetics September 2006 9 e152
An Exponential-Gamma Convolution Model for Background Correction of Illumina BeadArray Data.: Chen M, Xie Y, Story M Communications in statistics: theory and methods 2011 Sep 40 17 3055-3069
Predicting the future for people with lung cancer.: Xie Y and Minna JD. Nature Medicine August 2008 14 812 - 813
Enhanced identification and biological validation of differential gene expression via illumina whole genome expression arrays through the use of the model based background correction methodology.: Ding L, Xie Y, Park S, Xiao G, Story M. Nucleic Acids Research May 2008 36 e58
A Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Approach to Joint Modeling Multiple Sources of Genomic Data.: Pan W, Jeong KS, Xie Y, Khodursky AB. Statistical Sinica April 2008 18 709-729
Tumor mRNA Expression Profiles Predicting Responses to Chemotherapy: Minna JD, Girard L, Xie, Y Journal of Clinical Oncology October 2007 28 4329 - 4336

Honors & Awards

Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
University of Minnesota Graduate School (2006)
Jacob E. Bearman Student Achievement Award
University of Minnesota (2006)
Guanghua Excellent Student Award
Beijing Medical University (1996-1997) (1997)
Outstanding Student of Beijing City
Beijing, China (1997)
Scholarship for Excellent Student
Beijing Medical University (First Prize, 1993-1995) (1995)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American Statistical Association
International Biometric Society
Society for Clinical Trials