CCEB Seminar- Jeffrey S. Morris, PhD

"HepatoScore: a new biological blood signature for hepatocellular carcinoma" Jeffrey S. Morris, PhD Professor Director, Division of Biostatistics Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics Perelman School of Medicine Professor, Department of Statistics Wharton School of Business University of Pennsylvania In addition to his professorial role, Dr. Morris serves as Director of the Division of Biostatistics. His research interests focus on developing quantitative methods to extract knowledge from biomedical big data, including work to relate complex biomedical object data—including functions, images and manifolds—to patient outcomes and characteristics using flexible, automated regression methods, and to integrate information across multiple types of multi-platform genomic, proteomic, imaging, and wearable device data to uncover biomedical insights contained in these complex data. He has done extensive applied work in cancer research, including constructing novel prognostic indices for hepatocellular carcinoma and helping develop and characterize molecular subtypes of colorectal cancer to discover new precision therapeutic strategies.