Summary
Qian Wu is an Associate Professor and lead statistician at Fred Hutch with 13 years of experience designing and analyzing oncology clinical trials, including CAR-T immunotherapy studies. She combines deep methodological expertise in statistical genetics, precision medicine, and adaptive trial design with hands-on biomarker and multi-omics analysis (RNA-seq, ChIP-seq/CUT&RUN, CNV, SNP/GWAS) to translate complex molecular data into clinical insights. Qian has developed and published statistical software (seven R packages and R Shiny tools) and contributed to influential journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, Blood, and Bioinformatics. She routinely serves as a statistical reviewer for top-tier journals and advises multidisciplinary teams on power/sample size, signature validation, and correlative analyses. A committed mentor and minority female scientist, she actively fosters diversity and trains the next generation of biostatisticians. Less obvious: she blends academic rigor with industry-style productization of methods, having led R&D teams and built widely used trial-size and analysis tools.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Statistics, BS, Statistics at Beijing Normal University
Ph.D., Biostatistics, Ph.D., Biostatistics at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
MS, Biostatistics, MS, Biostatistics at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
English, manderin