Yichen Chen, PhD, MSc
- Senior Biostatistician, Global Analytics
Departments
Yichen Chen, PhD, MSc, is a Senior Biostatistician, Global Analytics for the department of Global Pediatric Medicine. She earned her Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Florida in 2019 and M.Sc. in statistics in China in 2014.
While a student at Florida, she worked as a statistician and graduate assistant at the Children’s Oncology Group Statistics and Data Center (COG SDC) for 3.5 years. Under the supervision of senior statisticians, she supported clinical trials on acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
Her job responsibilities included monitoring the ongoing studies on study accrual, data collection and toxicity, and generating regular study reports to study committee, data safety monitoring committee and institutional review board. In addition, Yichen served as a resource to senior statisticians in data analyses, ad-hoc analysis, protocol amendments, abstracts and presentations at conferences and manuscript preparation.
In her spare time, Yichen enjoys reading, playing music, swimming, cycling and fitness dancing.