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Denise Scholtens, PhD

Assistant Professor

dscholtens@northwestern.edu
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Dr. Scholtens received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics with secondary education certification from Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL in 1997 and a PhD in biostatistics from Harvard University in 2004. While completing her thesis work, she served as a consulting biostatistician in the microarray core facility at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and contributed to the Bioconductor project. In 2004, she joined the Department of Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University and is a biostatistician for the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center.

 

Research Interests

Dr. Scholtens is interested in the development of methodology for the analysis of high-dimensional data, specifically pertaining to bioinformatics research. She has worked on the analysis of microarray experiments and local modeling of protein complexes. She is currently interested in developing measurement error models for graph theoretic data and efficient sampling schemes for network data collection.

last updated:Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:09 PM