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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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Test Statistics and Statistical Inference for Data With Informative Cluster Sizes.
(Kim S, Martens MJ, Ahn KW.) Biom J. 2025 Feb;67(1):e70021 PMID: 39686682 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85212263178 12/17/2024
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Competing risks regression for clustered data with covariate-dependent censoring.
(Khanal M, Kim S, Fang X, Ahn KW.) Commun Stat Theory Methods. 2025;54(4):1081-1099 PMID: 39790905 PMCID: PMC11708822 01/10/2025
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Adjusted curves for clustered survival and competing risks data.
(Khanal M, Kim S, Ahn KW.) Commun Stat Simul Comput. 2025;54(1):120-143 PMID: 39790711 PMCID: PMC11708817 01/10/2025
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Adjusted curves for clustered survival and competing risks data
(Khanal M, Kim S, Ahn KW.) Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation. 2025;54(1):120-143 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85168081824 01/01/2025
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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. 2025 Jan 01;110(1):218-221 PMID: 39234871 PMCID: PMC11694114 09/05/2024
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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 Dec;30(12):1191.e1-1191.e8 PMID: 39303985 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85206435293 09/21/2024
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Joint Screening for Ultra-High Dimensional Multi-Omics Data.
(Kemmo Tsafack U, Lin CW, Ahn KW.) Bioengineering (Basel). 2024 Nov 25;11(12) PMID: 39768011 PMCID: PMC11727280 01/08/2025
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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 PMCID: PMC11717115 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85202479318 08/02/2024
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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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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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(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