Shuying (Sue) Li, PhD
Senior Staff Scientist
Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutch
Senior Staff Scientist
Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutch
Development of genetic statistical methodologies, including phylogenetic tree reconstruction from genetic sequences.
Education
Ohio State University, 1996, PhD (Biostatistics)
Ohio State University, 1993, MS (Applied Statistics)
University of Iowa, 1990, MA (Economics)
Nankai University, 1983, BS (Mathematics)
Research Interests
Development of genetic statistical methodologies, including phylogenetic tree reconstruction from genetic sequences
Association of genetic markers with diseases
Prediction of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles from other polymorphisms such as single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs)
Host genetics association with human immunity, especially immune-related diseases such as HIV infection and progression
Current Projects
Statistics for HIV Vaccine Trials Network studies (HVTN087 and HVTN090 phase 1 trials and killer immunoglobulin-like receptor [KIR]/HLA ancillary study of phase IIb STEP trial)
Statistics for RV152, an evaluation of volunteers who became infected with HIV during participation in the RV144 HIV vaccine trials (US Military HIV Research Program [MHRP])
Statistics for non-human primate model (NHP) T-cell ELISpot assays (Collaboration for Aids Vaccine Discovery [CAVD])