Ran Tao

Associate Professor of Biostatistics

Faculty Investigator, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute

2525 West End Avenue, Suite 1100, Room 11126
Nashville, Tennessee 37203

(615) 322-1081
r.tao[at]vumc.org

PhD, Biostatistics, University of North Carolina

Research interests include developing novel statistical methods to solve problems arising in the design and analysis of modern biomedical and public health studies, including genome-wide association studies, next-generation sequencing studies, and electronic health records systems. Current research topics include two-phase designs, missing data, measurement error, electronic health records, rare-variant analysis, trans-ethnic genetic association analysis, transcriptome-wide association analysis, genetic risk prediction, and multi-omics.