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Wei Xu
PeerJ Editor & Reviewer
515 Points

Contributions by role

Reviewer 15
Editor 500

Contributions by subject area

Science and Medical Education
Science Policy
Statistics
Computational Biology
Oncology
Emergency and Critical Care
Evidence Based Medicine
Health Policy
Hematology
Internal Medicine
Neurology
Translational Medicine
Diabetes and Endocrinology
Epidemiology
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Clinical Trials

Wei Xu

PeerJ Editor & Reviewer

Summary

Dr. Wei Xu received his Ph.D. in Biostatistics from University of Toronto. He is currently a scientist and principle biostatistician in Princess Margaret Hospital on clinical research of cancer diseases. He is a faculty member at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Medical Statistics and Informatics. Dr. Xu's research interests are statistical genetics and clinical trial design and analysis. He is the author or co-author of over 100 publications in peer-review journals.

Bioinformatics Clinical Trials Computational Biology Epidemiology Genetics Hematology Oncology Statistics

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Toronto

Work details

Clinician Scientist and Principal Biostatistician

University Health Network, University of Toronto
Biostatistics

Associate Professor

University of Toronto
Biostatistics

Websites

  • ResearchGate
  • University of Toronto profile
  • PubMed Search

PeerJ Contributions

  • Edited 4

Academic Editor on

April 14, 2020
Nomograms for predicting overall survival and cancer-specific survival in young patients with pancreatic cancer in the US based on the SEER database
Min Shi, Biao Zhou, Shu-Ping Yang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8958 PubMed 32322444
March 13, 2018
Establishment and quality evaluation of a glioma biobank in Beijing Tiantan Hospital
Fanhong Kong, Wenli Zhang, Lin Qiao, Qi Li, Haowen Li, Jingli Cao, Wenyan He, Chengya Dong, Yanjiao He, Lu He, Li Liu, Weilun Fu, Lijun Liu, Zirui Li, Yajie Wang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4450 PubMed 29576945
September 27, 2016
Formal modeling and analysis of the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway: role of O-linked N-acetylglucosamine transferase in oncogenesis and cancer progression
Muhammad Tariq Saeed, Jamil Ahmad, Shahzina Kanwal, Andreana N. Holowatyj, Iftikhar A. Sheikh, Rehan Zafar Paracha, Aamir Shafi, Amnah Siddiqa, Zurah Bibi, Mukaram Khan, Amjad Ali
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2348 PubMed 27703839
August 13, 2015
Low serum albumin and total lymphocyte count as predictors of 30 day hospital readmission in patients 65 years of age or older
Robert Robinson
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1181 PubMed 26339558