Dr. Xu is a Principal Biostatistician at the Princess Margaret Cancer Center, a Scientist at the Ontario Cancer Institute, and an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. As Principal-Investigator or co-Investigator, he has been involved in study design, data administration, statistical modeling development and data analysis on different clinical research and human genetic studies. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers in the field of statistics, bioinformatics, medical science and human genetics.

Dr. Xu’s research interests focus on clinical trial design and methodology, biostatistics and bioinformatics methodology, statistical genetics, and cancer clinical and translational research.
Comprehensive Characterization of a Canadian Cohort of von Hippel-Lindau Disease Patients.
Clin Genet. 2019 Aug 01;:
Salama Y, Albanyan S, Szybowska M, Bullivant G, Gallinger B, Giles RH, Asa S, Badduke C, Chiorean A, Druker H, Ezzat S, Hannah-Shmouni F, Hernandez KG, Inglese C, Jani P, Kaur Y, Krema H, Krimus L, Laperriere N, Lichner Z, Mete O, Sit M, Zadeh G,...
Association of two BRM promoter polymorphisms and smoking status with malignant pleural mesothelioma risk and prognosis.
Mol Carcinog. 2019 Jul 29;:
Lee MJ, Kuehne N, Hueniken K, Liang S, Rai S, Sorotsky H, Herman M, Shepshelovich D, Bruce J, Liang M, Patel D, Cheng D, Chen Z, Eng L, Brown MC, Cho J, Leighl NB, de Perrot M, Reisman D, Xu W, Bradbury PA, Liu G
Impact of metformin on disease control and survival in patients with head and neck cancer: a retrospective cohort study.
J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2019 Jul 25;48(1):34
Lee DJ, McMullen CP, Foreman A, Huang SH, Lu L, Xu W, de Almeida JR, Liu G, Bratman SV, Goldstein DP
Impact of cisplatin dose and smoking pack-years in human papillomavirus-positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma treated with chemoradiotherapy.
Eur J Cancer. 2019 Jul 19;118:112-120
Oliva M, Huang SH, Xu W, Su J, Hansen AR, Bratman SV, Ringash J, Jang R, Cho J, Bayley A, Hope AJ, Chen E, Giuliani M, Waldron J, Weinreb I, Perez-Ordonez B, Chepeha D, Kim J, O Sullivan B, Siu LL, Spreafico A
Multiple imputation and clinico-serological models to predict human papillomavirus status in oropharyngeal carcinoma: An alternative when tissue is unavailable.
Int J Cancer. 2019 Jul 03;:
Ren J, Xu W, Su J, Ren X, Cheng D, Chen Z, Bender N, Mirshams M, Habbous S, de Almeida JR, Perez-Ordonez B, Goldstein DP, Wang JR, Bratman SV, Huang SH, Jang R, Zhao Y, Waterboer T, Hung R, Liu G
A novel model for the X-chromosome inactivation association on survival data.
Stat Methods Med Res. 2019 Jun 30;:962280219859037
Han D, Hao M, Qu L, Xu W
Analysis of Genetic Association of Intestinal Permeability in Healthy First-degree Relatives of Patients with Crohn's Disease.
Inflamm Bowel Dis. 2019 Jun 28;:
Turpin W, Espin-Garcia O, Bedrani L, Madsen K, Meddings JB, Raygoza Garay JA, Silverberg MS, Smith MI, Griffiths AM, Moayyedi P, Marshall JK, Mack D, Seidman EG, Ropeleski M, Feagan BG, Jacobson K, Turner D, Walters T, Paterson AD, CCC GEM Project...
Occult Nodal Disease and Occult Extranodal Extension in Patients With Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Undergoing Primary Transoral Robotic Surgery With Neck Dissection.
JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2019 Jun 20;:
McMullen CP, Garneau J, Weimar E, Ali S, Farinhas JM, Yu E, Som PM, Sarta C, Goldstein DP, Su S, Xu W, Smith RV, Miles B, de Almeida JR
Computer-assisted image analysis of the tumor microenvironment on an oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma tissue microarray.
Clin Transl Radiat Oncol. 2019 Jul;17:32-39
Lee SL, Cabanero M, Hyrcza M, Butler M, Liu FF, Hansen A, Huang SH, Tsao MS, Song Y, Lu L, Xu W, Chepeha DB, Goldstein DP, Weinreb I, Bratman SV
Body Mass Index (BMI), BMI Change, and Overall Survival in Patients With SCLC and NSCLC: A Pooled Analysis of the International Lung Cancer Consortium.
J Thorac Oncol. 2019 Jun 01;:
Shepshelovich D, Xu W, Lu L, Fares A, Yang P, Christiani D, Zhang J, Shiraishi K, Ryan BM, Chen C, Schwartz AG, Tardon A, Wu X, Schabath MB, Teare MD, Le Marchand L, Zhang ZF, Field JK, Brenner H, Diao N, Xie J, Kohno T, Harris CC, Wenzlaff AS,...

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Clinician Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

Principal Biostatistician, Princess Margaret Cancer Center, UHN
Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto