Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics and Oncology

Research Interests:

• Statistical genetics
• Risk prediction
• Machine learning
• Disparate data integration
• Biostatistical methods

Nilanjan Chatterjee is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics and Oncology within the Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is known for foundational and methodological contributions to multiple areas of modern biomedical data science, including large-scale analysis of genetic associations, gene-environment interactions, and predictive model building by the synthesis of information from multiple data sources. His collaborative research has led to a better understanding of genetic architecture and the role of gene-environment interactions in the etiology of a variety of cancers.

Chatterjee has received numerous prestigious national and international awards, including the Mortimer Spiegelman Award (2010) from the American Public Health Association, both the Presidents’ and the Snedecor Awards from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (2011), the Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship (2013) from the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University’s School of Public Health, and the Norman E. Breslow Distinguished Lectureship (2017) from the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington. He serves on the scientific advisory committee of the Radiation Effect Research Foundation in Hiroshima, Japan and on the Prevention and Population Research Committee at Cancer Research UK.

Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Chatterjee led the Biostatistics Branch of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics at the National Cancer Institute from 2008 to 2015.