Dr. Xu is a biostatistician and Clinician Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, and a Professor in Biostatistics at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health. As Principal Investigator or co-Investigator, he has been involved in study design, data administration, statistical modelling development and data analysis on different clinical research and human genetic studies. He has published over 450 peer-reviewed papers in the fields 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.

For a list of Dr. Xu's publications, please visit PubMed or Scopus.


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