Dr. Xu is a biostatistician and Clinician Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Center, and an Associate 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 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.

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


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