Yu Shyr, Ph.D., is the Harold L. Moses Chair in Cancer Research and chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and serves as director of the Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences and Vanderbilt Technologies for Advanced Genomics Analysis and Research Design (VANGARD). His teaching and research interests encompass statistical and bioinformatic methodology, next-generation sequencing data, adaptive clinical trials, longitudinal binary data, cancer biology, epidemiology, genetics, bioinformatics, proteomics and survival analysis.