Associate Professor
Department of Healthcare Policy & Research
Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY
Xi Kathy Zhou, Ph.D., M.S., is on the faculty at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Zhou came from the Genomic Institute of Novartis Research Foundation in San Diego, where she served as a biostatistician and worked on projects related to microarray and high-throughput screening data analysis. She holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University.
Dr. Zhou’s research interest is to develop and apply novel statistical methods to better design biological and clinical studies related to cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment and properly analyze data generated from such studies. Dr. Zhou collaborates extensively with laboratory researchers and clinicians at Weill Cornell Medical College and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center on cancer related laboratory and clinical studies. She helped design numerous studies and analyzed data generated from such studies. She has served as the Lead Biostatistician in cancer prevention clinical trials. Her collaborative efforts have been supported by NIH/NCI, FAMRI, Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation, Metastasis Research Center of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Breast Cancer Research Foundation.