November 21, 2016
Dr. Michael Kosorok
Michael R. Kosorok, PhD, W.R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of biostatistics at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.
Election as a fellow, a tradition that began in 1874, is an honor bestowed upon an AAAS member by his or her peers for a member’s advancement of science in ways that are scientifically or socially distinguished.
Kosorok was honored for his meritorious contributions to biostatistics, in survival analysis, empirical processes and semiparametric models, statistical learning theory and personalized medicine, and for extraordinary administrative service.
He has led a number of National Institutes of Health grants, including a Big Data to Knowledge in Biomedicine grant to train students from multiple disciplines to develop career-long relationships with big data. He co-leads the National Cancer Institute’s Statistical Methods for Cancer Clinical Trials to develop new methods for the design and analysis of cancer clinical trials.
Since 2006, he has served as chair of biostatistics in the Gillings School, professor of statistics and operations research in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences, and member of the University’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. He serves as director of the North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute’s biostatistics core and as research fellow at UNC’s Cecil B. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.
Among his honors are fellowship in the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association and numerous invitations throughout his career to give distinguished lectures around the world.
The AAAS will honor Kosorok and 390 other fellows on Feb. 18, 2017, at the AAAS Fellows Forum, held during the association’s annual meeting in Boston.
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Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: David Pesci, director of communications, (919) 962-2600 or dpesci@unc.edu
