Ying Lu, Ph.D., is a professor of biostatistics in Stanford University School of Medicine. He also serves as the director of US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Palo Alto Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center (CSPCC), VA Palo Alto Health Care System. In the VA CSPCC, he directs a multi-disciplinary team to support the development, conduct, analysis, and publication of multicenter clinical trials initiated by VA investigators. Prior to his position at Stanford, he was a professor of radiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and served as the director of the biostatistics core for the UCSF Helen Diller and Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, where he led the effort to support university wide oncology research and provided statistical expertise and research in developing and validating new diagnostic techniques and treatments.
Lu’s primary research interests are in design and conduct clinical trials, statistical evaluation of medical diagnostic tests and medical decision making. He developed new statistical design for phase I and II cancer trials, and recently works on phase I dose selection for combination of treatments. He is a member of American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Statistical Task Forces and members of several External Advisory Boards or Scientific Advisory Boards, including a member of the US Food and Drug Administration Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee (2007-2010).
Ying Lu grew up in China, received his BS in mathematics from Fudan University, MS in applied mathematics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Lu is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, past president for the ASA Bay Area Chapter, a receipt of the Evelyn Fix Memorial Medal and the Healthstar Osteoporosis Medical Research Award (HOMA) for Achievements in Osteoporosis Research, and the 2014 President of the International Chinese Statistical Association.
Further information of Ying Lu can be found from the following link:
https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/ying-lu