About
Bryce Rowland is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center (CSCC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Bryce's research expertise is at the intersection of precision medicine, applied biostatistics, and team science. Currently, Bryce serves as a co-investigator on clinical trials in chronic pain and cardiovascular disease funded by both the NIH and PCORI. During his National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, Bryce researched extending polygenic risk score methodologies and analyzed biobank-sized 'omics data.
For the profession, Bryce is committed to training the next generation of collaborative biostatisticians. This is done through a combination of teaching and mentorship through hands-on work at the Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center.
A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Bryce was awarded the Brown Fellows Scholarship during his time at Centre College.
Honors and Awards
GRFP
2019-2022, NSF
Representative Courses
BIOS 662
Research Activities
- Precision Medicine
- Clinical Trial Design and Execution, especially SMARTs
- Applied Biostatistics
Key Publications
Improving Polygenic Risk Prediction in Admixed Populations by Explicitly Modeling Ancestral-Differential Effects via GAUDI . Sun, Quan*, Bryce T. Rowland*, Jiawen Chen, Anna V. Mikhaylova, Christy Avery, Ulrike Peters, Jessica Lundin, et al. (2024). Nature Communications, 15(1), 1016.
THUNDER: A Reference-Free Deconvolution Method to Infer Cell Type Proportions from Bulk Hi-C Data. Rowland, Bryce, Ruth Huh, Zoey Hou, Cheynna Crowley, Jia Wen, Yin Shen, Ming Hu, Paola Giusti-Rodríguez, Patrick F. Sullivan, and Yun Li. (2022). PLoS Genetics, 18(3), e1010102.
Transcriptome-Wide Association Study in UK Biobank Europeans Identifies Associations with Blood Cell Traits. Rowland, Bryce, Sanan Venkatesh, Manuel Tardaguila, Jia Wen, Jonathan D. Rosen, Amanda L. Tapia, Quan Sun, et al. (2022). Human Molecular Genetics, 31(14), 2333-47.
Education
- PhD, Biostatistics, UNC Chapel Hill, 2022
- BS, Mathematics, Centre College , 2017
