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Jie (Jenny) Huang, ScD

Assistant Professor
Director, Biostatistics Collaboration Center (BCC)

Dr. Huang received her Bachelor's degree (with honors) in Computer Science from Wuhan University, Master’s degree in Biostatistics from University of California, Los Angeles and Doctoral degree in Biostatistics from Harvard University. Dr. Huang worked many years as a Biostatistician on a number of nationwide multicenter AIDS clinical trials at Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research, Harvard School of Public Health. Before joined the faculty in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University, Dr. Huang was an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and the director of the methodology/biometry core in the Section of Clinical Sciences at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

Research Interests

Dr. Huang's current research involves a variety of statistical issues arising in clinical trials and other longitudinal studies, with particular emphasis on statistical methods and analyses related to HIV infectious disease and cancer. One area of interest in statistical methods is predicting survival type outcome measures with information from a large number of predictors. Such question arises when the scientific interest is to combine clinical information and gene expression profiling which contains thousands of gene expression measurements to identify risk groups in terms of survival and predict a patient’s survival time. The statistical challenge arises because the survival time often cannot be directly observed and subject to various censoring, and because the number of independent variables exceeds the number of subjects in the study. Dr. Huang is also interested in developing model selection procedures in high dimensional regression with censored data analysis. Another area of research interest is statistical models and methods with clustered data.

Seclected Recent Publications

  1. Huang J and Harrington DP. Operating Characteristics of Partial Least Squares in Right-Censored Data Analysis and Its Application in Predicting the Change of HIV-I RNA. In: Nikulin M. et al. (Eds). Probabilities, Statistics and Modeling in Public Health. Springer, Cambridge, MA. 2005.

  2. Huang J and Harrington DP. Iterative Partial Least Squares with Right-Censored Data Analysis: A Comparison to Other Dimension Reduction Techniques. Biometrics, 2005; 61(1): 17-24.

  3. Shea SM, Fieno DS, Schirf BE, Bi X, Huang J, Omary RA, and Li D. T2-prepared Steady-State Free Procession Blood Oxygen Level-Development MR Imaging of Myocardial Perfusion in a Dog Stenosis Model. Radiology, 2005; 236:503-509.

  4. Finckh A, Simard JF, Duryea J, Liang MH, Huang J, Daneel S, Forster A, Gabay C, and Guerne PA, for the SCQM program. The Effectiveness of Anti-TNF Therapy in Preventing Progressive Radiographic Joint Damage in Rheumatoid Arthritis. A Population Based Study. Arthritis & Rheumatism, 2005. In press.

  5. Omary RA, Gehl JA, Schirf BE, Green JD, Lu B, Pereles FS, Huang J, Larson AC, Li D. Prospective randomized comparison of MRI versus x-ray guided renal angioplasty in swine. Radiology, 2005. In press.

  6. Green JD, Omary RA, Schirf BE, Tang R, Lu B, Gehl JA, Huang J, Carr JC, Pereles FS, Li D. Comparison of X-ray Fluoroscopy and Interventional MRI for the Assessment of Coronary Artery Stenoses in Swine. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, 2005. In press.

  7. Tripathi A, Kern R, Conley DB, Seiberling K, Klemens JC, Harris KE, Suh L, Huang J, Grammer LC. Staphylococcal exotoxins and nasal polyposis: analysis of systemic and local responses. Am J Rhinol. 2005; Jul-Aug;19(4):327-33.

  8. Huang J and Harrington DP. Dimension Reduction in the Linear Model for Right-Censored Data: Predicting the Change of HIV-1 RNA Levels Using Clinical and Protease Gene Mutation Data. Lifetime Data Analysis, 2004; 10(4): 425-443.

  9. Huang J and Harrington DP. Bootstrap Selection of the Penalty Parameter in Penalized Partial Likelihood Regression with Right Censored Data. Biometrics, 2002; 58(4): 781-91.

  10. Miles SA, Testa M, Huang J, Wade M, Carden J, Scadden DT. Lack of Antitumor Activity and Intolerance of Interleukin-4 in Patients with Advanced HIV Disease and Kaposi’s sarcoma. J Interferon Cytokine Res, 2002; 22: 1143-8.

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