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Naim U. Rashid, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics
Gillings School of Global Public Health,
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Lineberger 20-020
450 West Drive
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, 27599

Overview

Dr. Rashid is an associate professor (with tenure) in the Department of Biostatistics at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, and has a joint appointment at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC). He currently serves as the Associate Director of the Lineberger Biostatistics Shared Resource, and co-directs the Biostatistics Cores of the UNC Pancreatic and Breast Cancer SPOREs.

Dr. Rashid’s lab is devoted to research addressing basic science, translational, and clinical problems in cancer. His group is deeply involved in the development of novel statistical methodology supporting this aim, with a specific focus in the areas of genomics, precision medicine, clinical trials, and machine learning with applications to pancreatic and breast cancers.

Ultimately, the Rashid lab hopes to impact public health by pushing the boundaries of cancer research through innovative new tools, and aid in the development of new interventions and treatments for cancer. Through teaching and mentoring, Dr. Rashid hopes to pass on these passions to his students and help prepare the next generation of statistical researchers.

Free Statistical Consultation for Lineberger Members

For general inquiries, please email LCCC_BIOS@med.unc.edu to make an appointment with one of our statisticians. We also provide a virtual drop-in clinic on Wednesdays from 12 to 1 PM. To join, please click on the following: Zoom Drop-In Clinic link. More info on the Lineberger Biostatistics Shared Resource can be found here.

news

Aug 15, 2024 The updated Rashid lab website has gone live!
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selected publications

  1. Biometrics
    Efficient computation of high-dimensional penalized generalized linear mixed models by latent factor modeling of the random effects
    Hillary M Heiling*, Naim U Rashid, Quefeng Li, Xianlu L Peng, Jen Jen Yeh, and Joseph G Ibrahim
    Biometrics, 2024
  2. JCO
    DNA mutational profiling in patients with colorectal cancer treated with standard of care reveals differences in outcome and racial distribution of mutations
    Federico Innocenti, Wancen Mu, Xueping Qu, Fang-Shu Ou, Omar Kabbarah, Charles David Blanke, Alan P Venook, Heinz-Josef Lenz, and Naim U Rashid
    Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2024
  3. Differential Transcript Usage Analysis Incorporating Quantification Uncertainty Via Compositional Measurement Error Regression Modeling
    Amber Marie Young*, S. Van Buren*, and Naim U Rashid
    Biostatistics, 2023
  4. Deeply-Learned Generalized Linear Models with Missing Data
    David K Lim*, Naim U Rashid, Junier B Oliva, and Joseph G Ibrahim
    Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2023
  5. Modeling Between-Study Heterogeneity for Improved Reproducibility in Gene Signature Selection and Clinical Prediction
    NU Rashid, Quefeng Li, Jen Jen Yeh, and Joseph G Ibrahim
    Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2020
  6. High-Dimensional Precision Medicine From Patient-Derived Xenografts
    NU Rashid, Daniel J Luckett, Jingxiang Chen, Michael T Lawson, Longshaokan Wang, Yunshu Zhang, Eric B Laber, Yufeng Liu, Jen Jen Yeh, Donglin Zeng, and  others
    Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2020
  7. Purity Independent Subtyping of Tumors (PurIST), A Clinically Robust, Single-sample Classifier for Tumor Subtyping in Pancreatic Cancer
    NU Rashid, Xianlu L Peng, Chong Jin, Richard A Moffitt, Keith E Volmar, Brian A Belt, Roheena Z Panni, Timothy M Nywening, Silvia G Herrera, Kristin J Moore, and  others
    Clinical Cancer Research, 2020
  8. Virtual microdissection identifies distinct tumor-and stroma-specific subtypes of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
    Richard A Moffitt, Raoud Marayati, Elizabeth L Flate, Keith E Volmar, S Gabriela Herrera Loeza, Katherine A Hoadley, Naim U Rashid, Lindsay A Williams, Samuel C Eaton, Alexander H Chung, and  others
    Nature genetics, 2015