PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Jian Zou
Gender: Male
Title: Dr.
Position: Associate Professor
CONTACT INFORMATION
Email: jianzou@cqmu.edu.cn
Address: School of Public Health, Chongqing Medical University (Jinyun Campus), Huxi Street, Shapingba District, Chongqing, China
Phone: +86-15972046655
EDUCATION EXPERIENCE
2019.9 – 2023.4: Ph.D. in Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh
2017.9 – 2019.5: M.Sc in Biostatistics, Columbia University
2013.9 – 2017.6: B.Sc in Biotechnology and Applied Chemistry, Central China Normal University
WORKING EXPERIENCE
2023.8 – present: Associate Professor (Young Innovators), Department of Statistics, School of Public Health, Chongqing Medical University
2019.9 – 2023.5: Graduate Student Researcher (Biostatistician), University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
2019.1 – 2019.5: Research Intern, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Development and application of statistical/machine learning methods on clinical and high dimensional omics data
HONOUR & AWARDS
Dean’s Service Award, Pitt Public Health (2023.4)
Best Graduate Student Researcher Award, Pitt Biostatistics (2023.4)
Student & Early Career Travel Award, 2022 Symposium on Data Science & Statistics (2022.4)
The Mihaela Serban Memorial Award for Best Poster Presentation, ASA Pittsburgh Chapter (2022.4)
Excellent Graduate, CCNU (2017.6)
Second Prize, National Life Science Innovation Experiment Contest (2016.8)
PUBLICATIONS
Sayali Onkar, Jian Cui, Jian Zou, …, George C. Tseng, Adrian V Lee, Tullia C Bruno, Steffi Oesterreich*, Dario A.A.Vignali* (2023). Immune landscape in invasive ductal and lobular breast cancer reveals a divergent macrophage-driven microenvironment, Nature Cancer, 1-19.
Steffi Oesterreich†*, Azadeh Nasrazadani†, Jian Zou†, Neil Carleton, ..., George Tseng, Adrian V. Lee, Nicole Williams*, Megan Kruse* (2022). Clinicopathological features and outcomes comparing patients with invasive ductal and lobular breast cancer, JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 114(11), 1511-1522.
Jian Zou†, Yannick Düren†, and Li-Xuan Qin* (2022). PRECISION.seq: An R package for benchmarking depth normalization in microRNA sequencing. Frontiers in Genetics, 12.
Neil Carleton, Jian Zou, Yusi Fang, ..., George C. Tseng, Oscar C. Marroquin, Adrian V. Lee*, Priscilla F. McAuliffe* (2021). Outcomes after sentinel lymph node biopsy and radiotherapy in older women with early-stage, estrogen receptor–positive breast cancer, JAMA Network Open, 4(4), e216322-e216322.
Li-Xuan Qin*, Jian Zou, Jiejun Shi, Ann Lee, Aleksandra Mihailovic, Thalia A. Farazi, Thomas Tuschl, Samuel Singer (2020). Statistical assessment of depth normalization for small RNA sequencing, JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics, 4, 567-582.
