Yang Xie, Ph.D.

Professor

Dr. Yang Xie holds the Raymond D. and Patsy R. Nasher Distinguished Chair in Cancer Research and is the Associate Dean for Data Sciences at UT Southwestern Medical Center. She is the founding director of the Quantitative Biomedical Research Center (QBRC), the Pediatric Cancer Data Commons (PCDC), and the Cancer Center Data Science Shared Resources (DSSR) at the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Yang Xie received her training in biostatistics, medicine and epidemiology. Her research lab focuses on medical informatics, developing predictive and prognostic biomarkers, and precision medicine. She is currently the PI of an NIH Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) grant, MPI of an NIAID U01 grant and PI of the Pediatric Cancer Data Core at CPRIT.