Zi-fan Yu, Sc.D. Senior Biostatistician

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Zi-Fan Yu, Sc.D. is currently a member of the International Biometric Society (ENAR), the American Statistical Association, and the Society for Clinical Trials.

Since joining Statistics Collaborative in 2003, Dr. Yu has been involved with studies in cancer, devices, enzyme-replacement therapy, malaria, and vaccines. She coordinated the statistical aspects of a clinical study report and pre-market approval application. Her other contributions include project management, experimental design, protocol development, statistical analysis plans and analyses, and development of randomization schedules.

Before joining Statistics Collaborative in 2003, Dr. Yu served as a Statistical Consultant, Biostatistics Consulting Clinic, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health (1999-2000); Biostatistician, Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (1997-1998); Teaching Assistant, Harvard School of Public Health (1997-2000), and Faculty, St. George’s School in Newport, RI, where she taught high school mathematics (1994-1996).

In 2002, Dr. Yu received a Student Travel Award for her paper, “Using percentile regression for quantitative risk assessment in developmental toxicology” from the Eastern North Atlantic Region (ENAR) of the International Biometric Society’s student paper competition.

She received her B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania (1994) and her Sc.D. in Biostatistics from the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her thesis was titled, “Regression methods for quantitative risk assessment of continuous outcomes in toxicology.”