Wei Xu

Dr. Wei Xu is a Clinician Scientist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. He is also a Professor of Biostatistics at Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. He leads the Biostatistics Department at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Dr. Xu’s research interests focus on cancer big data, statistical methodology, clinical trial design and analysis, statistical genetics, bioinformatics, predictive model construction, and personalized medicine development. So far, he has published over 450 peer-reviewed papers in high-impact journals on statistics, bioinformatics, medical science, and human genetics. His H-index is 71 with more than 25,000 citations. Dr. Xu is also the co-Director of the COMBIEL training program at Ontario Cancer Institute.