Kwang Woo Ahn, PhD
Professor, Biostatistics and Chief Statistical Director of the CIBMTR
Locations
- Biostatistics
Contact Information
Education
MS, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 2005
BS, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2003
Research Areas of Interest
- Biostatistics
- Clinical Trial
- Controlled Clinical Trial
- Data Accuracy
- Data Interpretation, Statistical
- High Dimensional Data Analysis
- Historical Data for Clinical Trials
- Machine Learning
- Missing Data
- Right-Censored Data Analysis
Research Experience
- Survival and competing risks data analysis, high dimensional data analysis, missing data, bioinformatics, personalized medicine
Research Interests
Dr. Kwang Woo Ahn is a professor in the division of biostatistics at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He joined the division in the fall of 2008. He has been collaborating with various research groups at MCW including Center for International Blood & Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR), Department of Physiology, and Department of Plastic Surgery. In CIBMTR, he is serving as PhD statistician of several working committees including Chronic Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Pediatric Cancer. He is involved in projects on hypertension, next generation sequencing data from Physiology. His current research interest includes survival analysis and variable selection.
Publications
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CD19-directed CART therapy for T-cell/histiocyte-rich large B-cell lymphoma.
(Pophali PA, Fein JA, Ahn KW, Allbee-Johnson M, Ahmed N, Awan FT, Farhan S, Grover NS, Hilal T, Iqbal M, Maakaron J, Modi D, Nasrollahi E, Schachter LG, Sauter C, Hamadani M, Herrera A, Shouval R, Shadman M.) Blood Adv. 2024 Oct 22;8(20):5290-5296 PMID: 38985302 PMCID: PMC11497379 07/10/2024
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(Cheng G, Smith MA, Phelan R, Brazauskas R, Strom J, Ahn KW, Hamilton B, Peterson A, Savani B, Schoemans H, Schoettler M, Sorror M, Higham C, Kharbanda S, Dvorak CC, Zinter MS.) Transplant Cell Ther. 2024 Oct;30(10):1017.e1-1017.e12 PMID: 39089527 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85202479318 08/02/2024
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(Akhtar OS, Arshad S, Lian Q, Ahn KW, D'Souza A, Dhakal B, Mohan M, Pasquini M, Longo W, Shah NN, Fenske TS, Hamadani M.) Transplant Cell Ther. 2024 Sep 18 PMID: 39303985 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85206435293 09/21/2024
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(Mercadal S, Ahn KW, Allbee-Johnson M, Ganguly S, Geethakumari PR, Hong S, Malone A, Murthy H, Pawarode A, Sica AR, Solh M, Ustun C, Shadman M, Sauter CS, Hamadani M, Herrera AF, Lee CJ.) Haematologica. 2024 Sep 05 PMID: 39234871 09/05/2024
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(Epperla N, Hashmi H, Ahn KW, Allbee-Johnson M, Chen AI, Wirk B, Kanakry JA, Lekakis L, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Scordo M, Riedell PA, Jain T, Shadman M, Sauter C, Hamadani M, Herrera AF, Ahmed S.) Br J Haematol. 2024 Sep;205(3):1202-1207 PMID: 38797526 PMCID: PMC11499028 05/27/2024
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Autologous transplant vs. CAR-T therapy in patients with DLBCL treated while in complete remission.
(Shadman M, Ahn KW, Kaur M, Lekakis L, Beitinjaneh A, Iqbal M, Ahmed N, Hill B, Hossain NM, Riedell P, Gopal AK, Grover N, Frigault M, Brammer J, Ghosh N, Merryman R, Lazaryan A, Ram R, Hertzberg M, Savani B, Awan F, Khimani F, Ahmed S, Kenkre VP, Ulrickson M, Shah N, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Herrera A, Sauter C, Hamadani M.) Blood Cancer J. 2024 Jul 08;14(1):108 PMID: 38977682 PMCID: PMC11231252 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85197736867 07/09/2024
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(Wang TP, Ahn KW, Shadman M, Kaur M, Ahmed N, Bacher U, Cerny J, Chen A, Epperla N, Frigault M, Grover N, Haverkos B, Hill B, Hossain N, Iqbal M, Jain T, Krem MM, Maakaron J, Modi D, Alhaj Moustafa M, Riedell P, Savani B, Sica RA, Sureda A, Wudhikarn K, Herrera AF, Sauter C, Hamadani M, Jimenez Jimenez A.) Leukemia. 2024 Jul;38(7):1564-1569 PMID: 38750138 PMCID: PMC11271761 05/16/2024
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Meta-Analytic Gene-Clustering Algorithm for Integrating Multi-Omics and Multi-Study Data.
(Kemmo Tsafack U, Ahn KW, Kwitek AE, Lin CW.) Bioengineering (Basel). 2024 Jun 08;11(6) PMID: 38927823 PMCID: PMC11201102 06/27/2024
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(Lara ST, Rein LE, Simanek AM, Totoraitis MF, Rausch DJ, Weston BW, Ahn KW, Meurer JR, Beyer KMM.) Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2024 May 01;43(5):437-443 PMID: 38241639 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85191103877 01/19/2024
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Efficient estimation for left-truncated competing risks regression for case-cohort studies.
(Fang X, Ahn KW, Cai J, Kim S.) Biometrics. 2024 Jan 29;80(1) PMID: 38281769 PMCID: PMC10826882 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85184145902 01/29/2024
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(Smith MA, Cheng G, Phelan R, Brazauskas R, Strom J, Ahn KW, Hamilton BK, Peterson A, Savani B, Schoemans H, Schoettler ML, Sorror M, Keller RL, Higham CS, Dvorak CC, Fineman JR, Zinter MS.) Front Oncol. 2024;14:1415984 PMID: 38868534 PMCID: PMC11167102 06/13/2024
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(Knight TE, Ahn KW, Hebert KM, Atshan R, Wall DA, Chiengthong K, Lund TC, Prestidge T, Rangarajan HG, Dvorak CC, Auletta JJ, Kent M, Hashem H, Talano JA, Rotz SJ, Fraint E, Myers KC, Leung W, Sharma A, Bhatt NS, Driscoll TA, Yu LC, Schultz KR, Qayed M, Broglie L, Eapen M, Yanik GA.) Bone Marrow Transplant. 2023 Dec;58(12):1390-1393 PMID: 37666957 PMCID: PMC11221560 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85169665242 09/05/2023