Journal of Biometrics & Biostatistics

Yi-Ju Li

Yi-Ju Li
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Duke University, USA

Biography

Yi-Ju Li, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Li is also a faculty member at the Center for Human Genetics, Duke University Medical Center.  Originally from Taiwan, she received her undergraduate degree in mathematics from Chung Yuang Christian University. She then did her graduate work at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC, with Dr. Bruce Weir, a world-renowned statistical geneticist. After receiving her PhD, Dr. Li completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Virginia Polytechnic University in Blacksburg, followed by additional training as a Research Associate at The Graduate University for Advance Studies in Hayama, Japan. Dr. Li is a statistical geneticist whose primary interest is statistical method development and its application to human genetic studies of complex diseases. Her research has focused on analyzing genetic and genomic data. Dr. Li and her collaborators have published several family-based association methods for quantitative trait and X-linked genes. Dr. Li also serves as an Associate Director for the Biostatistics Core at the Duke Translational Medicine Institute, where she works with a group of Biostatisticians and provides statistical consultation to clinical investigators at Duke University Medical Center.

Research Interest

Statistical method development and its application to human genetic studies of complex diseases. Her research has focused on analyzing genetic and genomic data for identifying susceptibility genes for several human complex diseases including Alzheimer, Parkinson diseases, myopia, and Fuchs Dystroph.