Ying Chen

Appointments and Affiliations

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Program in Biostatistics and Biomathematics
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division and Public Health Sciences Division
Member, Appointed 2011
University of Washington
Department of Statistics
Affiliate Professor
Professional Headshot of Ying Chen

Mailing Address

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
M2-C200
P.O. Box 19024
Seattle, Washington 98109-1024
United States

Contact

Phone: (206) 667-7051
Fax: (206) 667-4378
yqchen@fhcrc.org

Degrees

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Biostatistics, 1999.
B.S., Peking University, Computational Mathematics, 1992.

Research Interests

Dr. Ying Qing Chen is a Full Member at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Affiliate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Washington. Dr. Chen obtained his doctoral degree in Biostatistics from the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University. He was the Sweesy-Womack Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at UC Berkeley and Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Florida prior to joining the Hutchinson Center faculty in 2004. His expertise is in the development of statistical methods for analysis of survival and longitudinal data from clinical trials and epidemiological studies. Since joining the Center, Dr. Chen has been statistician on several Phase III trials: including HIVNET 024, HPTN 046, and HPTN 052.

Previous Positions

2004-2011: Associate Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Program in Biostatistics and Biomathematics, Public Health Sciences Division (PHS) and Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division (VIDD)
2003-2004: Associate Professor, University of Florida, Division of Biostatistics, Department of Statistics
1999-2004: Assistant Professor, University of California, Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health

Additional Experience

2004-Present: Affiliate Associate, Full Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Washington

Memberships

American Statistical Association
International Biometric Society
International Chinese Statistical Association
Society for Clinical Trials
International AIDS Society

Honors and Awards

2003-2004: Stanley Schor Visiting Scholar, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ
2001-2004: Sweesy-Womack Endowed Chair, University of California, Berkeley, CA
2001-2002: Hellman Family Faculty Fund, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1999-2000: Student Award and Travel Fellowship, ICSA, Washington, DC
1999-2000: The Thomas Charlmers Award, SCT, Anaheim, CA
1999-2000: Margaret Merrell Award, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
1998-1999: Young Investigators Travel Grant to IBS, Cape Town, South Africa

Funding

  • NIH/NCI: Statistical Methods for Medical Studies; Investigator (PI: Ross Prentice), 2006-2016.
  • NIH/Pending: Statistical Methods for Dissecting Time-Varying GxE Interactions; Investigator (PI: Lue Ping Zhao), 2012-2015
  • NIH/NIAID: Statistical Methods in HIV/AIDS Research, Principal Investigator, 2010-2013
  • NIH/NIAID: Leadership for HIV/AIDS Clinical Trials Network, Investigator (PI: Deborah Donnell), 2004-2013.
  • NIH/NIAID: Statistical Methods for HIV/AIDS Research, Sub-Award Principal Investigator (PI: Mei-Cheng Wang), 2008-2012.

Recent Publications

2012
Chen, YQ, Masse B, Wang L, Ou S-S, Li X, Donnell D, McCauley M, Gamble T, Ribauldo HJ, Cohen MS et al..  2012.  Statistical considerations for the HPTN 052 Study to evaluate the effectiveness of early versus delayed antiretroviral strategies to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV-1 in serodiscordant couples.. Contemporary clinical trials. 33(6):1280-1286. Abstract
2011
Eshleman, SH, Hudelson SE, Redd AD, Wang L, Debes R, Chen YQ, Martens CA, Ricklefs SM, Selig EJ, Porcella SF et al..  2011.  Analysis of Genetic Linkage of HIV From Couples Enrolled in the HIV Prevention Trials Network 052 Trial.. The Journal of infectious diseases. 204 (12):1918-1926. Abstract
Cohen, MS, Chen YQ, McCauley M, Gamble T, Hosseinipour MC, Kumarasamy N, Hakim JG, Kumwenda J, Grinsztejn B, Pilotto JHS et al..  2011.  Prevention of HIV-1 infection with early antiretroviral therapy.. The New England journal of medicine. 365(6):493-505. Abstract
Chen, YQ, Zhang XC, Zhao LP.  2011.  Estimating a Scale-change Effect for Time-varying Phenotypes in Genome-wide Association Studies . Journal of Applied Statistical Science. 18(4):31-46.
2010
Chen, YQ.  2010.  Semiparametric regression in size-biased sampling.. Biometrics. 66(1):149-58. Abstract
Chen, YQ, Young A, Brown ER, Chasela CS, Fiscus SA, Hoffman IF, Valentine M, Emel L, Taha TE, Goldenberg RL et al..  2010.  Population attributable fractions for late postnatal mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 in Sub-Saharan Africa.. Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999). 54(3):311-6. Abstract
Brown, ER, Chen YQ.  2010.  An Imputation Method for Interval Censored Time-to-Event with Auxiliary Information: Analysis of the Timing of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV. Statistical Communications in Infectious Diseases. 2(1)
2009
Kafulafula, G, Mwatha A, Chen YQ, Aboud S, Martinson F, Hoffman I, Fawzi W, Read JS, Valentine M, Mwinga K et al..  2009.  Intrapartum antibiotic exposure and early neonatal, morbidity, and mortality in Africa.. Pediatrics. 124(1):e137-44. Abstract
Mwinga, K, Vermund SH, Chen YQ, Mwatha A, Read JS, Urassa W, Carpenetti N, Valentine M, Goldenberg RL.  2009.  Selected hematologic and biochemical measurements in African HIV-infected and uninfected pregnant women and their infants: the HIV Prevention Trials Network 024 protocol.. BMC pediatrics. 9:49. Abstract
2008
Chasela, C, Chen YQ, Fiscus S, Hoffman I, Young A, Valentine M, Emel L, Taha TE, Goldenberg RL, Read JS.  2008.  Risk factors for late postnatal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 in sub-Saharan Africa.. The Pediatric infectious disease journal. 27(3):251-6. Abstract
Aboud, S, Msamanga G, Read JS, Mwatha A, Chen YQ, Potter D, Valentine M, Sharma U, Hoffmann I, Taha TE et al..  2008.  Genital tract infections among HIV-infected pregnant women in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia.. International journal of STD & AIDS. 19(12):824-32. Abstract