Nilanjan Chatterjee PhD

Dr. Chatterjee received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta and a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Washington, Seattle in 1999. He served as Chief of the Biostatistics Branch of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), National Cancer Institute (NCI) for almost eight years. Dr. Chatterjee now serves as a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins University with joint appointments at the Bloomberg School of Public Health (Biostatistics) and the School of Medicine (Oncology). He remains a Special Volunteer with DCEG.

Dr. Chatterjee's research focuses on a diverse set of quantitative issues that arise in design, analysis, interpretation and public health translation of modern molecular and genetic epidemiologic studies. He has made methodological contributions in cutting-edge topics such as analysis of genetic associations and gene-environment interactions, modeling etiologic heterogeneity by disease subtypes and development of models for risk prediction. He has played key roles in design and analysis of genome-wide association studies of various cancers with a particular emphasis on smoking-related sites, such as lung and bladder.