Danyu Lin (Biostatistician)
Danyu Lin
(
Chinese
:
林丹瑜
) is a Chinese-American
biostatistician
known for his contributions to
survival analysis
,
statistical genetics
, and
infectious diseases
. He is currently the
Dennis Gillings
Distinguished Professor
[1]
of
Biostatistics
at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
.
Research
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Lin's early work in
survival analysis
focused on marginal models for multivariate failure time data, robust inference, and model checking.
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
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The statistical methods he developed have been incorporated into major textbooks
[7]
[8]
and software packages (
SAS
,
R
,
Stata
, SUDDAN
[9]
) and used in thousands of scientific studies.
[10]
Lin also conducted groundbreaking research in semiparametric additive risks models and accelerated failure time models.
[11]
[12]
Over the last two decades, Lin has made major theoretical and computational advances in nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation of transformation models, random-effects models, and interval-censored data.
[13]
[14]
Lin has made seminal contributions to
statistical genetics
. His finding that meta-analysis of summary statistics is equivalent to joint analysis of individual-participant data
[15]
[16]
has enabled geneticists around the world to discover hundreds of thousands of genetic variants associated with thousands of complex human diseases and traits through meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies and next-generation sequencing studies. He also pioneered the use of score statistics in genetic association studies,
[17]
[18]
which substantially speeds up computation for genome-wide association tests.
Lin made important contributions to the prevention and treatment of COVID-19 by characterizing the time-varying effects of vaccines and prior infections, as well as the benefits of antiviral drugs. His high-profile publications (5 in
New England Journal of Medicine
, 3 in
JAMA
journals, and 2 in
The Lancet
journals)
[19]
[20]
[21]
[22]
[23]
[24]
[25]
[26]
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have been viewed over 1 million times; cited by the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
,
[29]
[30]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
,
[31]
and the
World Health Organization
;
[32]
and reported by
The New York Times
,
[33]
[34]
The Washington Post
,
[35]
[36]
[37]
[38]
The US News
,
[39]
The Associated Press
,
[40]
The Wall Street Journal
,
[41]
NBC News
,
[42]
Science
,
[43]
[44]
and
Scientific American
.
[45]
Career
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Lin received his
Ph.D.
in
Biostatistics
in 1989 from the
University of Michigan
, where he was supervised by
Lee-Jen Wei
. After one-year post-doctoral training with Stephen Lagakos at
Harvard University
, he joined the
Biostatistics
faculty at the
University of Washington
, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004 and to Professor in 2008. He also held a joint appointment with the
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
. Lin moved to the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
at the end of 2020 to become the
Dennis Gillings
Distinguished Professor of
Biostatistics
.
Lin served as an Associate Editor for numerous statistical journals, including
Biometrics
(1997-2000),
Biometrika
(1999-2023),
Journal of the American Statistical Association
(2012-2023). He also served as a Special Government Employee (Consultant) to the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
. He currently serves on the Editorial Board of
Genetic Epidemiology
and as a Statistical Reviewer for
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
.
Honors and Awards
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References
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"Danyu Lin, PhD"
.
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
. Retrieved
May 7,
2024
.
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Wei LJ, Lin DY, Weissfeld L (1989).
Regression analysis of multivariate incomplete failure time data by modeling marginal distributions
.
Journal of the American Statistical Association
84: 1065-1073.
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Lin DY, Wei LJ (1989).
The robust inference for the Cox proportional hazards model
.
Journal of the American Statistical Association
84: 1074-1078.
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Lin DY, Wei LJ, Ying Z (1993).
Checking the Cox model with cumulative sums of martingale-based residuals
.
Biometrika
80: 557-572.
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Lin DY (1994).
Cox regression analysis of multivariate failure time data: the marginal approach
.
Statistics in Medicine
13: 2233-2247.
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Lin DY, Wei LJ, Yang I, Ying Z (2000).
Semiparametric regression for the mean and rate functions of recurrent events
.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series B
62: 711-730.
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Kalbfleisch JD, Prentice RL (2002).
The Statistical Analysis of Failure Time Data
.
John Wiley & Sons
.
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Klein JP, Moeschberger ML (2003).
Survival Analysis: Techniques for Censored and Truncated Data
. New York:
Springer
.
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"SUDDAN: Statistical Software for Weighting, Imputing, and Analyzing Data"
. Retrieved
May 7,
2024
.
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Google Scholar
[1]
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Lin DY, Ying Z (1994).
Semiparametric analysis of the additive risk model
.
Biometrika
81: 61-71.
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Jin Z, Lin DY, Wei LJ, Ying Z (2023).
Rank?based inference for the accelerated failure time model
.
Biometrika
90: 341-353.
- ^
Zeng D, Lin DY (2007).
Maximum likelihood estimation in semiparametric regression models with censored data (with discussion)
.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series B
69: 507-564.
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Zeng D, Mao L, Lin DY (2016).
Maximum likelihood estimation for semiparametric transformation models with interval-censored data
.
Biometrika
103: 253-271.
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Lin DY, Zeng D (2010).
Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies: No efficiency gain in using individual participant data.
Genetic Epidemiology
34: 60-66
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Lin DY, Zeng D (2010).
On the relative efficiency of using summary statistics versus individual-level data in meta-analysis
.
Biometrika
97: 321-332.
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Lin DY (2006).
Evaluating statistical significance in two-stage genomewide association studies
.
American Journal of Human Genetics
78: 505-509.
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Lin, DY, Tang ZZ (2011).
A general framework for detecting disease associations with rare variants in sequencing studies
.
American Journal of Human Genetics
89: 354-367.
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Lin DY, Baden LR, El Sahly HM, Issink B, Neuzil KM, Corey L, Miller J for the COVE Study Group (2022).
Durability of Protection Against Symptomatic COVID-19 Among Participants of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Trial
.
JAMA Network Open
5: e2215984
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Lin DY, Gu Y, Wheeler B, Young H, Holloway S, Sunny SK, Moore Z, Zeng D (2022).
Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines over a 9-month period in North Carolina
.
New England Journal of Medicine
386: 933-941.
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Lin DY, Gu Y, Xu Y, Zeng D, Wheeler B, Young H, Sunny SK, Moore Z (2022).
Effects of vaccination and previous infection on omicron infections in children
.
New England Journal of Medicine
387: 1141-1143.
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Lin DY, Gu Y, Xu Y, Wheeler B, Young H, Sunny SK, Moore Z, Zeng D (2022).
Association of Primary and Booster Vaccination and Prior Infection With SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Severe COVID-19 Outcomes
.
JAMA
338: 1415-1426.
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Lin DY, Xu Y, Zeng D, Wheeler B, Young H, Moore Z, Sunny SK (2023).
Effects of COVID-19 vaccination and previous SARS-CoV-2 infection on omicron infection and severe outcomes in children under 12 years of age in the USA: an observational cohort study
.
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
23: 1257-1265.
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Lin DY, Xu Y, Gu Y, Zeng D, Wheeler B, Young H, Sunny SK, Moore Z (2023).
Effectiveness of Bivalent Boosters against Severe Omicron Infection
.
New England Journal of Medicine
388: 764-766.
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Lin DY, Xu Y, Gu Y, Zeng D, Sunny SK, Moore Z (2023).
Durability of Bivalent Boosters against Omicron Subvariants
.
New England Journal of Medicine
388: 1818-1820
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Lin DY, Abi Fadel F, Huang S, Milinovich AT, Sacha GL, Bartley P, Duggal A, Wang X (2023).
Nirmatrelvir or Molnupiravir Use and Severe Outcomes From Omicron Infections
.
JAMA Network Open
6: e2335077.
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Lin DY, Huang S, Milinovich A, Duggal A, Wang X (2024).
Effectiveness of XBB.1.5 vaccines and antiviral drugs against severe outcomes of omicron infection in the USA
.
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
24: 278-280.
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Lin DY, Du Y, Xu Y, Paritala S, Donahue, M, and Maloney P (2024).
Durability of XBB.1.5 Vaccines against Omicron Subvariants
.
New England Journal of Medicine
.
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Weir, Jerry (January 26, 2023).
"Consideration for Potential Changes to COVID-19 Vaccine Strain Composition"
.
FDA
.
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Weir, Jerry (June 5, 2024).
"FDA Considerations and Recommendations for the 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccine Formula Composition"
.
FDA
.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(January 13, 2022).
"COVID-19 weekly update : Up to date genomics and precision health information on COVID-19"
.
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World Health Organization
(October 26, 2022).
"COVID-19 weekly epidemiological update, edition 115, 26 October 2022"
.
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Mueller, Benjamin; Lafraniere, Sharon (January 26, 2023).
"Covid Vaccines Targeting Omicron Should be Standard, Panel Says"
.
The New York Times
.
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Smith, Dana G. (February 2, 2023).
"Who Should Get a Covid Booster Now? New Data Offers Some Clarity"
.
The New York Times
.
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Krause, Phillip; Gruber, Marion; Offit, Paul (November 29, 2021).
"We don't need universal booster shots. We need to reach the unvaccinated"
.
The Washington Post
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Wen, Leana (October 20, 2022).
"Opinion | The Checkup With Dr. Wen: Should all children get the updated booster?"
.
The Washington Post
.
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Wen, Leana (February 7, 2023).
"Opinion | Should there be an annual coronavirus booster? It depends"
.
The Washington Post
.
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Wen, Leana (October 5, 2023).
"Opinion | The Checkup With Dr. Wen: Paxlovid might be even more important than the new covid shot"
.
The Washington Post
.
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Foster, Robin (January 27, 2023).
"Updated Booster Shots, Not Original COVID Vaccines, Should Be Standard: FDA Panel"
.
US News
.
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Kelety, Josh (September 15, 2022).
"Study finds Pfizer vaccine boosts, not destroys, immunity from past COVID-19 infection"
.
Associated Press News
.
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Finley, Allysia (January 29, 2023).
"Opinion | How Biden Officials Bungled a Better Vaccine"
.
WSJ
.
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Ryan, Benjamin (September 24, 2023).
"As Covid cases rise, what to know about Paxlovid"
.
NBC News
.
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Lowe, Derek (February 16, 2023).
"There Are Vaccines and There Are Vaccines"
.
Science
.
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Couzin-Frankel, Jennifer (May 23, 2023).
"COVID-19 vaccines may undergo major overhaul this fall"
.
Science
.
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Young, Lauren (June 5, 2024).
"New 'FLiRT' COVID Variants Could Be Driving an Uptick in Cases. Here's How to Avoid Them"
.
Scientific American
.
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"Awards"
. Retrieved
May 7,
2024
.
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"Scientific Legacy Database"
.
Institute of Mathematical Studies
. Retrieved
May 7,
2024
.
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"ASA Fellows"
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American Statistical Association
. Retrieved
May 7,
2024
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"2015 G. W. Snedecor Award Winner"
.
Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies
. Retrieved
May 7,
2024
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