Lily Wang Assistant Professor of Biostatistics Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University School of Medicine S-2323 Medical Center North Nashville, TN 37232-2158 lily 'dot 'wang 'at' vanderbilt 'dot' edu phone: (615) 343-3856 fax: (615) 343-4924

My CV

Research Interests

• Clinical trials
• Neurology, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Immunology
• Integrative Analysis of Genome-wide Studies
• Pathway Analysis
• Statistical Models of Correlated Data, repeated measures
• Mixed-Effects Models
• Models for Extremal Events; Extreme Value Theory
• Models for Mixture Distributions

Education

PhD in Biostatistics 2004
School of Public Health, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dissertation: Some Statistical Aspects of the Analysis of Genomic Sequences (manuscript)
Advisor: Dr Pranab K Sen

MS in Biostatistics 2000
School of Public Health, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Advisor: Dr Gary G Koch

BA in Mathematics 1998
School of Arts and Sciences, Temple University

Methodology Grants

1R01 LM011177-01 Mapping the Genetic Architecture of Complex Disease via RNA-seq and GWAS Data
PIs: Wang, Zhao Project period: 5/01/2012-4/30/2015

1R03 DE022093-01 Understanding Genetic Basis of Dental Caries via Integrative Genomic Approaches
PIs: Wang, Zhao Project period: 09/01/2011-08/31/2013

Software

GWAS pathway analysis
example dataset: geneset.xls
source code: GWAS_PATHWAY.sas
design matrix:
new version (2 models) SFigure1-Design_Matrices-zz.docx
old version (3 models) SFigure1-Design_Matrices.doc

Projects

Department of Neurology (Report)
Kennedy Center for Human Development (Report)
The Vanderbilt Silvio O. Conte Center for Neuroscience Research (Report)

Omics Projects

Understanding Genetic Basis of Dental Caries via Integrative Genomic Approaches (Report)

Clinical Trials

1. Effects of Treating Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Epilepsy. A Multicenter, randomized, double-blind, Phase II trial. PI: Dr Beth Malow.
2. Melatonin for Sleep in Children with Autism: Safety, Tolerability, and Dosing. A dose titration Phase II trial. PI: Dr Beth Malow.
3. Safety and Tolerability of Neurostimulation in Early State Parkinson’s Disease. A prospective, randomized, blinded, single-center phase II pilot trial. PI: Dr David Charles.
4. Long-term follow-up of deep brain stimulation for early stage Parkinson’s disease. PI: Dr David Charles.

Resources for Collaborative Research

Departmental Policies on Collaboration, Consulting and Grants (Policy)
Biostatistics Clinics (Clinics)
How to Prepare Data for Statisticians (courtesy of Daniel W. Byrne, Senior Associate in Biostatistics)
10DataEntryCommandments.doc
spreadsheetfromheaven.xls Spreadsheetfromhell.xls
datadictionary.xls (courtesy of Dr Paul Harris)
Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap)

Album

Pictures Link

Journals

Biostatistics Journals link

Current Opinions
Neurobiology
Genetics and development
Pharmacology

Omics Research
Omics gateway
Neuroscience gateway
Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Nature Neuroscience
Nature Molecular Systems Biology
Nature Genetics
Nature Reviews Genetics

PLoS Computational Biology
PLoS Genetics
PLoS Biology
PLoS One

PNAS
Bioinformatics
Briefings in Bioinformatics
Nucleic Acids Research
J. Computational Biology

BMC Bioinformatics
Genome Biology
BMC Genomics
BMC Systems Biology